New entries are always welcome!
Do note the difference between entering the game for the first time and making changes to your existing entry:
If you don't want to make any changes, you don't need to make any post here!
* New entries submit an entry with 100 shares as described below
* Existing players may only shift position for at most 20 of their shares each round, as described below.
Deadline for both edits and new entries is the start of first free practice.
Initial thread (including scoring rules)
Bahrain changes
China changes
Azerbaijan changes
Spain changes (including Azerbaijan entries)
Monaco changes
Canada changes
France changes
Austria changes (including France entries)
Britain changes
Germany changes
Hungary changes
Belgium changes (including Hungary entries)
Italy changes
Singapore changes
Russia changes
Japan changes (Including Russia entries)
Mexico changes
USA changes
Brazil changes
Submitting an initial entry
The first time you play this game, you shall submit an entry where you place 100 shares among the drivers, fulfilling these conditions:
* You may only hold 100 shares (or less, which doesn't help you) in total at a time.
* You can not own fractions of a share, just integer shares.
* You can place no more than 40 shares on any one driver.
* You must own shares in at least three drivers.
* You may not own shares in more than ten drivers.
* You may edit your first entry as much as you like until the edit deadline (first free practice) for the coming race.
Note that there is no limit to the number of shares available for each driver.
Also note that your initial entry is the basis for the following rounds too! You'll be allowed to change no more than 20 shares before each race, so make sure your initial entry looks at least 80% respectable...
Entry Example A from 1975:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 22
Depailler 16
Peterson 12
Ickx 10
Donohue 3
Editing your entry after the first round it takes part in
* After the first race your entry took part in, you may only change 20 of your shares at a time (for the next race).
* You do not have to edit your entry at all! If you so wish, you can leave your entry as it is from race one and not make a single change throughout the season.
* If a driver is replaced -temporarily or permanently- during the season, the shares placed on him will automatically be transferred to the replacing driver. So you could say that the shares actually are attached to the car number.
* You may edit your changes as much as you like until the edit deadline for the coming race.
* Edit deadline for changes is the beginning of first free practice for each race.
Example B:
After the first race, the shareholder who submitted the entry in Example A from 1975 realizes that the Lotus is a dud, and submits an edit to her entry as follows:
Sell:
Peterson -10
Ickx -10
Buy:
Pace +10
Reutemann +5
Depailler +5
Her new "portfolio" will after the entry look like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27
Depailler 21
Pace 10
Donohue 3
Peterson 2
The above change of shares can perhaps best be written like this:
E Fittipaldi 37
Reutemann 27 (+5)
Depailler 21 (+5)
Pace 10 (+10)
Donohue 3
Peterson 2 (-10)
Ickx 0 (-10)
Posting changes in this way may make it easier for you to keep track of what your portfolio looks like, if you look back into these change threads.
Just look at the initial thread, and it's a bit of a drag to backtrack some players' changes!
An edit doesn't have to look just like above, any way is fine as long as it's easy to understand which driver shares are to be sold and which to be bought.
NOTE: I won't automatically be posting updates on what each player's portfolio looks like, so remember to keep track of what you own!
*** Share distribution and value *** DRIVER DShares Race Season VPP Owners Hamilton 347 15.24 319.99 65 19 Verstappen 293 12.87 270.20 77 17 Vettel 273 11.99 251.75 83 17 Bottas 245 10.76 225.93 93 16 Leclerc 234 10.28 215.79 97 16 Albon 202 8.87 186.28 112 15 Sainz 120 5.27 110.66 190 12 Norris 103 4.52 94.98 221 11 Perez 66 2.90 60.86 345 8 Ricciardo 66 2.90 60.86 345 8 Hülkenberg 65 2.85 59.94 351 7 Magnussen 58 2.55 53.49 393 6 Grosjean 52 2.28 47.95 438 5 Räikkönen 45 1.98 41.50 507 6 Kvyat 44 1.93 40.58 518 6 Gasly 39 1.71 35.96 585 3 Stroll 23 1.01 21.21 992 3 Giovinazzi 21 0.92 19.37 1086 4 Kubica 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 Russell 2 0.09 1.84 11408 1 The table above shows how the shares are distributed and the race points scores corresponding to these share distributions. A driver's share provides above average return when the driver scores more points than the value listed for him in the "Race" column. *** WDC points value for one share as a function of number of players *** # points/share 23 0.043913 24 0.042083 25 0.040400 With 23 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.44 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Hamilton 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Verstappen 1925 1386 1155 924 770 616 462 308 154 77 Vettel 2075 1494 1245 996 830 664 498 332 166 83 Bottas 2325 1674 1395 1116 930 744 558 372 186 93 Leclerc 2425 1746 1455 1164 970 776 582 388 194 97 Albon 2800 2016 1680 1344 1120 896 672 448 224 112 Sainz 4750 3420 2850 2280 1900 1520 1140 760 380 190 Norris 5525 3978 3315 2652 2210 1768 1326 884 442 221 Perez 8625 6210 5175 4140 3450 2760 2070 1380 690 345 Ricciardo 8625 6210 5175 4140 3450 2760 2070 1380 690 345 Hülkenberg 8775 6318 5265 4212 3510 2808 2106 1404 702 351 Magnussen 9825 7074 5895 4716 3930 3144 2358 1572 786 393 Grosjean 10950 7884 6570 5256 4380 3504 2628 1752 876 438 Räikkönen 12675 9126 7605 6084 5070 4056 3042 2028 1014 507 Kvyat 12950 9324 7770 6216 5180 4144 3108 2072 1036 518 Gasly 14625 10530 8775 7020 5850 4680 3510 2340 1170 585 Stroll 24800 17856 14880 11904 9920 7936 5952 3968 1984 992 Giovinazzi 27150 19548 16290 13032 10860 8688 6516 4344 2172 1086 Kubica 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 Russell 285200 205344 171120 136896 114080 91264 68448 45632 22816 11408 The above table illustrates the return each share gives for each finishing position given the current share distribution. *** VPP samples *** Players Shares/driver 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 300 400 23 4563 2281 1140 760 570 456 380 325 285 253 228 114 76 57 24 4761 2380 1190 793 595 476 396 340 297 264 238 119 79 59 25 4960 2480 1240 826 620 496 413 354 310 275 248 124 82 62 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT OZ BAH CHN AZE ESP MON CAN FRA AUT GB GER HUN BEL ITA SIN RUS JAP MEX USA BRA ABU Gasly 29130 0 1014 507 0 0 2120 0 0 0 0 4800 485 1382 0 2764 0 4146 1382 0 10530 Bottas 27006 2650 1584 1638 1975 1386 1170 900 1404 1140 1386 0 328 1260 1548 870 1512 2275 1530 2450 0 Hamilton 23249 1296 1600 1600 1116 1500 1450 1400 1400 560 1375 112 1500 1062 885 696 1600 930 1625 1152 390 Sainz 22600 0 0 0 2106 1404 2144 0 2096 940 1824 2370 2280 0 0 0 1704 2110 0 772 2850 Verstappen 21483 1320 1068 1068 972 1230 864 810 996 2325 920 2175 1422 0 400 1125 972 0 616 1275 1925 Leclerc 20992 790 1395 800 790 790 0 1410 1425 1674 1365 0 1104 2200 1975 1638 1200 600 912 924 0 Kvyat 19639 793 0 0 0 1824 3420 570 0 0 1140 7770 0 3108 0 0 0 496 0 0 518 Perez 19282 0 623 2492 2808 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3576 1824 0 2850 1824 2244 351 690 Albon 19106 0 584 1336 0 1336 1470 668 162 1050 2100 0 1224 1480 1072 1024 1370 1680 1260 1290 0 Vettel 18473 780 710 1065 1140 936 1458 1440 770 924 0 1530 1335 996 0 2275 0 1566 1548 0 0 Ricciardo 17866 0 0 1842 0 0 670 2464 0 0 2070 0 0 0 3960 0 0 0 1340 2760 2760 Stroll 16915 1888 0 0 1382 0 0 1984 0 0 0 8832 0 845 0 0 0 1984 0 0 0 Giovinazzi 16676 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2074 0 0 0 0 2400 1342 0 0 0 0 10860 Räikkönen 16652 1028 1374 458 256 0 0 0 2484 828 1656 0 2484 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6084 Norris 15120 0 4472 0 2340 0 0 0 828 1984 0 0 496 0 288 1590 912 0 0 1326 884 Hülkenberg 12736 1464 0 0 0 0 0 2682 1448 0 321 0 0 1380 3350 670 335 0 362 724 0 Kubica 11408 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11408 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Magnussen 6090 1984 0 0 0 1872 0 0 0 0 0 1448 0 0 0 0 786 0 0 0 0 Grosjean 3382 0 0 0 0 316 438 0 0 0 0 2628 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Russell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.