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
Emilia-Romagna changes
Miami 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 237 15.96 367.03 62 12 Leclerc 230 15.49 356.19 64 13 Perez 180 12.12 278.76 82 11 Sainz 172 11.58 266.37 86 13 Russell 123 8.28 190.49 120 10 Hamilton 106 7.14 164.16 140 8 Norris 88 5.93 136.28 169 7 Magnussen 68 4.58 105.31 218 6 Bottas 57 3.84 88.27 261 7 Gasly 50 3.37 77.43 297 5 Ocon 45 3.03 69.69 330 5 Alonso 44 2.96 68.14 338 7 Ricciardo 28 1.89 43.36 531 5 Schumacher 20 1.35 30.97 744 2 Tsunoda 19 1.28 29.42 783 5 Zhou 16 1.08 24.78 930 4 Vettel 7 0.47 10.84 2125 4 Stroll 6 0.40 9.29 2480 2 Albon 3 0.20 4.65 4960 3 Latifi 1 0.07 1.55 14880 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 15 0.067333 16 0.063125 17 0.059411 With 15 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.67 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Leclerc 1600 1152 960 768 640 512 384 256 128 64 Perez 2050 1476 1230 984 820 656 492 328 164 82 Sainz 2150 1548 1290 1032 860 688 516 344 172 86 Russell 3000 2160 1800 1440 1200 960 720 480 240 120 Hamilton 3500 2520 2100 1680 1400 1120 840 560 280 140 Norris 4225 3042 2535 2028 1690 1352 1014 676 338 169 Magnussen 5450 3924 3270 2616 2180 1744 1308 872 436 218 Bottas 6525 4698 3915 3132 2610 2088 1566 1044 522 261 Gasly 7425 5346 4455 3564 2970 2376 1782 1188 594 297 Ocon 8250 5940 4950 3960 3300 2640 1980 1320 660 330 Alonso 8450 6084 5070 4056 3380 2704 2028 1352 676 338 Ricciardo 13275 9558 7965 6372 5310 4248 3186 2124 1062 531 Schumacher 18600 13392 11160 8928 7440 5952 4464 2976 1488 744 Tsunoda 19575 14094 11745 9396 7830 6264 4698 3132 1566 783 Zhou 23250 16740 13950 11160 9300 7440 5580 3720 1860 930 Vettel 53125 38250 31875 25500 21250 17000 12750 8500 4250 2125 Stroll 62000 44640 37200 29760 24800 19840 14880 9920 4960 2480 Albon 124000 89280 74400 59520 49600 39680 29760 19840 9920 4960 Latifi 372000 267840 223200 178560 148800 119040 89280 59520 29760 14880 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 Albon 17350 0 0 7430 0 9920 Vettel 14880 0 0 0 14880 0 Bottas 12326 7440 0 800 2520 1566 Tsunoda 10940 3500 0 0 7440 0 Norris 7635 0 1350 2910 3375 0 Ocon 7222 1716 2704 1482 0 1320 Russell 6935 1368 1100 1815 1452 1200 Leclerc 6898 2275 1242 1725 504 1152 Perez 5922 0 1392 1836 1710 984 Ricciardo 5656 0 0 5656 0 0 Stroll 5456 0 0 0 2976 2480 Verstappen 4950 0 1750 0 1650 1550 Sainz 3945 1530 1125 0 0 1290 Magnussen 3896 3030 430 0 436 0 Zhou 3720 3720 0 0 0 0 Hamilton 3590 1125 85 1260 0 1120 Gasly 1674 0 1080 594 0 0 Alonso 606 606 0 0 0 0 Latifi 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schumacher 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.