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)
Saudi Arabia changes
Australia 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 Verstappen 225 15.17 348.92 66 12 Leclerc 213 14.36 330.31 69 12 Sainz 194 13.08 300.84 76 13 Perez 145 9.78 224.86 102 10 Hamilton 141 9.51 218.65 105 10 Russell 122 8.23 189.19 121 10 Bottas 74 4.99 114.75 200 9 Magnussen 67 4.52 103.90 221 6 Ocon 60 4.05 93.04 247 7 Norris 51 3.44 79.09 291 4 Gasly 50 3.37 77.54 297 5 Alonso 47 3.17 72.88 316 7 Schumacher 28 1.89 43.42 530 3 Ricciardo 21 1.42 32.57 707 4 Zhou 20 1.35 31.01 743 5 Tsunoda 17 1.15 26.36 874 4 Stroll 15 1.01 23.26 990 2 Vettel 4 0.27 6.20 3715 3 Albon 2 0.13 3.10 7430 2 Latifi 2 0.13 3.10 7430 2 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 15 0.067333 16 0.063125 17 0.059411 With 14 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.72 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1650 1188 990 792 660 528 396 264 132 66 Leclerc 1725 1242 1035 828 690 552 414 276 138 69 Sainz 1900 1368 1140 912 760 608 456 304 152 76 Perez 2550 1836 1530 1224 1020 816 612 408 204 102 Hamilton 2625 1890 1575 1260 1050 840 630 420 210 105 Russell 3025 2178 1815 1452 1210 968 726 484 242 121 Bottas 5000 3600 3000 2400 2000 1600 1200 800 400 200 Magnussen 5525 3978 3315 2652 2210 1768 1326 884 442 221 Ocon 6175 4446 3705 2964 2470 1976 1482 988 494 247 Norris 7275 5238 4365 3492 2910 2328 1746 1164 582 291 Gasly 7425 5346 4455 3564 2970 2376 1782 1188 594 297 Alonso 7900 5688 4740 3792 3160 2528 1896 1264 632 316 Schumacher 13250 9540 7950 6360 5300 4240 3180 2120 1060 530 Ricciardo 17675 12726 10605 8484 7070 5656 4242 2828 1414 707 Zhou 18575 13374 11145 8916 7430 5944 4458 2972 1486 743 Tsunoda 21850 15732 13110 10488 8740 6992 5244 3496 1748 874 Stroll 24750 17820 14850 11880 9900 7920 5940 3960 1980 990 Vettel 92875 66870 55725 44580 37150 29720 22290 14860 7430 3715 Albon 185750 133740 111450 89160 74300 59440 44580 29720 14860 7430 Latifi 185750 133740 111450 89160 74300 59440 44580 29720 14860 7430 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 15 2976 1488 744 496 372 297 248 212 186 165 148 74 49 37 16 3174 1587 793 529 396 317 264 226 198 176 158 79 52 39 17 3372 1686 843 562 421 337 281 240 210 187 168 84 56 42 VPP as a function of number of players and number of shares placed on a driver. *** Return per share season history *** DRIVER TOT BAH SAU OZ EMI MIA ESP MON AZE CAN GB AUT FRA HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN ÚSA MEX BRA ABU Bottas 8240 7440 0 800 Albon 7430 0 0 7430 Ocon 5902 1716 2704 1482 Ricciardo 5656 0 0 5656 Leclerc 5242 2275 1242 1725 Russell 4283 1368 1100 1815 Norris 4260 0 1350 2910 Zhou 3720 3720 0 0 Tsunoda 3500 3500 0 0 Magnussen 3460 3030 430 0 Perez 3228 0 1392 1836 Sainz 2655 1530 1125 0 Hamilton 2470 1125 85 1260 Verstappen 1750 0 1750 0 Gasly 1674 0 1080 594 Alonso 606 606 0 0 Latifi 0 0 0 0 Schumacher 0 0 0 0 Stroll 0 0 0 0 Vettel 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.