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)
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 241 15.21 365.12 65 11 Leclerc 186 11.74 281.79 85 12 Sainz 160 10.10 242.40 99 11 Perez 157 9.91 237.86 101 11 Hamilton 149 9.41 225.74 106 9 Norris 142 8.96 215.13 111 9 Russell 115 7.26 174.23 138 7 Alonso 102 6.44 154.53 155 8 Ricciardo 90 5.68 136.35 176 6 Piastri 85 5.37 128.77 186 5 Stroll 44 2.78 66.66 360 5 Tsunoda 42 2.65 63.63 377 4 Albon 33 2.08 50.00 480 4 Bottas 10 0.63 15.15 1587 4 Gasly 10 0.63 15.15 1587 1 Magnussen 10 0.63 15.15 1587 1 Ocon 10 0.63 15.15 1587 1 Hülkenberg 6 0.38 9.09 2645 2 Zhou 5 0.32 7.58 3174 3 Sargeant 3 0.19 4.55 5290 3 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 16 0.063125 17 0.059411 18 0.056111 19 0.053158 With 16 players, if ten shares are moved to/from a driver his rating will rise/fall by about 0.63 points/race. *** Return per share as a function of finishing position *** DRIVER Win P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 Verstappen 1625 1170 975 780 650 520 390 260 130 65 Leclerc 2125 1530 1275 1020 850 680 510 340 170 85 Sainz 2475 1782 1485 1188 990 792 594 396 198 99 Perez 2525 1818 1515 1212 1010 808 606 404 202 101 Hamilton 2650 1908 1590 1272 1060 848 636 424 212 106 Norris 2775 1998 1665 1332 1110 888 666 444 222 111 Russell 3450 2484 2070 1656 1380 1104 828 552 276 138 Alonso 3875 2790 2325 1860 1550 1240 930 620 310 155 Ricciardo 4400 3168 2640 2112 1760 1408 1056 704 352 176 Piastri 4650 3348 2790 2232 1860 1488 1116 744 372 186 Stroll 9000 6480 5400 4320 3600 2880 2160 1440 720 360 Tsunoda 9425 6786 5655 4524 3770 3016 2262 1508 754 377 Albon 12000 8640 7200 5760 4800 3840 2880 1920 960 480 Bottas 39675 28566 23805 19044 15870 12696 9522 6348 3174 1587 Gasly 39675 28566 23805 19044 15870 12696 9522 6348 3174 1587 Magnussen 39675 28566 23805 19044 15870 12696 9522 6348 3174 1587 Ocon 39675 28566 23805 19044 15870 12696 9522 6348 3174 1587 Hülkenberg 66125 47610 39675 31740 26450 21160 15870 10580 5290 2645 Zhou 79350 57132 47610 38088 31740 25392 19044 12696 6348 3174 Sargeant 132250 95220 79350 63480 52900 42320 31740 21160 10580 5290 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 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 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 JPN CHN MIA EMI MON CAN ESP AUT GB HUN BEL NED ITA AZE SIN USA MEX BRA LV QAT ABU Perez 1818 1818 Verstappen 1625 1625 Sainz 1485 1485 Russell 1380 1380 Leclerc 1020 1020 Norris 888 888 Piastri 744 744 Hamilton 636 636 Stroll 360 360 Alonso 310 310 Albon 0 0 Bottas 0 0 Gasly 0 0 Hülkenberg 0 0 Magnussen 0 0 Ocon 0 0 Ricciardo 0 0 Sargeant 0 0 Tsunoda 0 0 Zhou 0 0 Scoring over 1000 points per share in a round means that the share did above average.