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 337 20.02 460.50 50 15 Perez 269 15.98 367.58 62 16 Alonso 196 11.64 267.83 86 15 Leclerc 153 9.09 209.07 110 14 Russell 140 8.32 191.31 120 11 Hamilton 137 8.14 187.21 123 13 Stroll 117 6.95 159.88 144 10 Sainz 102 6.06 139.38 165 10 Gasly 47 2.79 64.22 358 6 Ocon 45 2.67 61.49 374 6 Bottas 40 2.38 54.66 421 5 Norris 25 1.49 34.16 674 2 Piastri 24 1.43 32.80 702 4 Magnussen 20 1.19 27.33 843 2 Hülkenberg 16 0.95 21.86 1054 3 Albon 11 0.65 15.03 1533 3 Tsunoda 11 0.65 15.03 1533 2 Zhou 8 0.48 10.93 2108 2 de Vries 1 0.06 1.37 16864 1 Sargeant 1 0.06 1.37 16864 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 17 0.059411 18 0.056111 19 0.053158 With 17 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.59 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1250 900 750 600 500 400 300 200 100 50 Perez 1550 1116 930 744 620 496 372 248 124 62 Alonso 2150 1548 1290 1032 860 688 516 344 172 86 Leclerc 2750 1980 1650 1320 1100 880 660 440 220 110 Russell 3000 2160 1800 1440 1200 960 720 480 240 120 Hamilton 3075 2214 1845 1476 1230 984 738 492 246 123 Stroll 3600 2592 2160 1728 1440 1152 864 576 288 144 Sainz 4125 2970 2475 1980 1650 1320 990 660 330 165 Gasly 8950 6444 5370 4296 3580 2864 2148 1432 716 358 Ocon 9350 6732 5610 4488 3740 2992 2244 1496 748 374 Bottas 10525 7578 6315 5052 4210 3368 2526 1684 842 421 Norris 16850 12132 10110 8088 6740 5392 4044 2696 1348 674 Piastri 17550 12636 10530 8424 7020 5616 4212 2808 1404 702 Magnussen 21075 15174 12645 10116 8430 6744 5058 3372 1686 843 Hülkenberg 26350 18972 15810 12648 10540 8432 6324 4216 2108 1054 Albon 38325 27594 22995 18396 15330 12264 9198 6132 3066 1533 Tsunoda 38325 27594 22995 18396 15330 12264 9198 6132 3066 1533 Zhou 52700 37944 31620 25296 21080 16864 12648 8432 4216 2108 de Vries 421600 303552 252960 202368 168640 134912 101184 67456 33728 16864 Sargeant 421600 303552 252960 202368 168640 134912 101184 67456 33728 16864 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 17 3372 1686 843 562 421 337 281 240 210 187 168 84 56 42 18 3571 1785 892 595 446 357 297 255 223 198 178 89 59 44 19 3769 1884 942 628 471 376 314 269 235 209 188 94 62 47 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 AZE MIA EMI MON ESP CAN AUT GB HUN BEL NED ITA SIN JPN QAT USA MEX BRA LV ABU Hülkenberg 6324 0 0 6324 Norris 5392 0 0 5392 Stroll 5272 3544 0 1728 Alonso 4530 1680 1560 1290 Zhou 4216 0 0 4216 Hamilton 4204 950 1040 2214 Perez 4163 1818 1725 620 Verstappen 3772 1550 972 1250 Albon 3372 3372 0 0 Piastri 2808 0 0 2808 Russell 2652 732 1920 0 Sainz 2168 1296 872 0 Gasly 1570 822 748 0 Tsunoda 1533 0 0 1533 Ocon 1124 0 1124 0 Bottas 976 976 0 0 Magnussen 843 0 843 0 Leclerc 696 0 696 0 de Vries 0 0 0 0 Sargeant 0 0 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.