wc-chip-timing — chip deployment leverage across the horizon

Implements the deployment logic of footballfantasy/context/frameworks/chip-catalog.md — the five single-use boosters and the principle that chips pay off on leverage, not on a quiet round. wc-chip-strategist owns the deployment plan and the verify-verdict on offspring; this skill is the engine it reasons from: it prices, for every chip and every upcoming round, how much extra the chip is worth there, and converts that surface into a fire/hold recommendation and a horizon-aware earmark table.

The one idea this skill exists to make concrete: a chip's value is not "what it does," it is what it does here minus what it would do in an ordinary round. Five levers, one tournament; mis-timing one (especially the Wildcard or Maximum Captain) is a top-tier mistake, and nailing one is worth more than a round of good transfers (chip-catalog.md opening). So the deliverable is a leverage score per chip per round — the marginal EV the booster adds above its baseline round — and the discipline to spend that leverage at its peak rather than hoard it (the golden rule).

This skill prices and sequences chips; it does not build squads, derive player EV, rate fixtures, model clean sheets, or solve the captain ladder. Those are upstream signals — read them, never recompute (signal-framework.md rule). It feeds wc-chip-strategist, which presents the chip line to the board and emits the verify verdict; the manager fires — this skill never auto-deploys.

When to invoke

• The chip-check prompt — "fire a chip this round?" runs this skill to score every chip's this-round leverage against its earmark.
• The matchday-board whenever a chip is earmarked for this round or the Director flags that leverage may have appeared (a loaded captain slate, a full BB2 stack drawn against a weak attack, the first KO round with multiple owned favourites).
• The group->KO transition — the canonical Wildcard window (chip-catalog.md #1): budget jumps to $105m, the nation cap loosens, half the field of nations is gone, and the whole squad needs re-pointing at survivors.
• wc-chip-strategist calls it during the verify stage to test whether a recombined offspring's MB5 chip attachment sits on a genuine leverage peak or is burning a chip on a quiet round.
• Any round where the golden-rule clock says chips are stacking up dangerously close to the semis (see the horizon-budget guard).

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