What is the next calendar checkpoint?

MLS Decision Day is scheduled for 7 November 2026. Use it to plan a separate MLS regular-season data freeze; do not assume MLS and NWSL evidence inventories share the same cut-off. (mlssoccer.com)

This week’s task: Complete one row of the overlap audit before scheduling another supplier demo. “Our existing tools now answer this” is a valid purchasing outcome.

Evidence boundary: no club subscriptions, private datasets or production API responses were inspected for this briefing.