PM on October 27, 2024: “😂Your GW10 points were mostly decided weeks ago mate.” Despite the seemingly light-hearted, jovial tone evoked by the laughing emoji, the statement struck us as being quite profound. There is genuine evidence corroborating this claim—just take the all-too-painful example of Jiayang buying Colwill instead of Aina to replace Hall in GW 6, resulting in a remarkable 20-point swing (an excellent demonstration of the macroeconomic phenomenon of the “multiplier effect”). If our past determines our present and our present determines our future, then which temporal state should we live in? We then pivot to the question of how viable it is to have three premium midfielders at the expense of Haaland—and in the process of conducting a cost-benefit analysis using the likelihood of owning the best captaincy option each gameweek, Jacob strays dangerously close to revisionism before Jiayang reels him in.