{
  "id": "CQ-ROSTER-2026-09-26-R1",
  "retrieved_date": "2026-09-26",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "scope": "Men’s competition; NFL, NBA, MLB league scopes; global soccer, boxing and OWGR golf; UFC promotion scope",
  "selection_status": "Research roster selected at user direction; operational eligibility and source review pending",
  "official_cq_published": false,
  "sources": {
    "soccer": {
      "basis": "2025 men's Ballon d'Or final voting",
      "date": "2025-09-22",
      "url": "https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/029e-1eeae3a29e5c-64e217276491-1000--2025-ballon-d-or-voting-results-official-rankings/",
      "names": [
        "Ousmane Dembélé",
        "Lamine Yamal",
        "Vitinha",
        "Mohamed Salah",
        "Raphinha"
      ],
      "values": [
        1380,
        1059,
        703,
        657,
        620
      ],
      "alts": [
        "Achraf Hakimi",
        "Kylian Mbappé"
      ],
      "note": "Latest completed Ballon d’Or, not a forecast of the 2026 award. Men’s global soccer."
    },
    "nfl": {
      "basis": "2025 AP NFL MVP final voting",
      "date": "2026-02-05",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/1f6a4d94a8ffcdd5844855c5d4ba510a",
      "names": [
        "Matthew Stafford",
        "Drake Maye",
        "Josh Allen",
        "Christian McCaffrey",
        "Trevor Lawrence"
      ],
      "values": [
        366,
        361,
        91,
        71,
        49
      ],
      "alts": [
        "Justin Herbert",
        "Not verified — do not substitute"
      ],
      "note": "NFL competition scope. MVP voting favors quarterbacks; this is an award-selected cohort, not an all-position consensus or all-league global ranking."
    },
    "nba": {
      "basis": "2025–26 NBA MVP final voting",
      "date": "2026-05-17",
      "url": "https://pr.nba.com/voting-results-2025-26-nba-regular-season-awards/",
      "names": [
        "Shai Gilgeous-Alexander",
        "Nikola Jokić",
        "Victor Wembanyama",
        "Luka Dončić",
        "Cade Cunningham"
      ],
      "values": [
        939,
        634,
        569,
        250,
        117
      ],
      "alts": [
        "Jaylen Brown",
        "Kawhi Leonard"
      ],
      "note": "NBA competition scope, including athletes from all countries. Seventh-place tie resolved by native published order: Leonard before Mitchell."
    },
    "mlb": {
      "basis": "2025 AL/NL MVP normalized point share",
      "date": "2025-11-13",
      "url": "https://bbwaa.com/25-nl-mvp/",
      "urls": [
        "https://bbwaa.com/25-nl-mvp/",
        "https://bbwaa.com/25-al-mvp/"
      ],
      "names": [
        "Shohei Ohtani",
        "Aaron Judge",
        "Cal Raleigh",
        "Kyle Schwarber",
        "Juan Soto"
      ],
      "values": [
        420,
        355,
        335,
        260,
        231
      ],
      "alts": [
        "José Ramírez",
        "Bobby Witt Jr."
      ],
      "note": "Normalize points by each league’s maximum possible 420 (30 voters × 14 points). Sort descending; then first-place votes, then native ballot order, then AL before NL if still tied. MLB scope excludes NPB/KBO and other leagues; it is not a universal baseball ranking."
    },
    "boxing": {
      "basis": "Three-publisher men’s pound-for-pound composite",
      "date": "2026-09-26",
      "url": "https://tbrb.org/p4p",
      "urls": [
        "https://tbrb.org/p4p",
        "https://www.boxingscene.com/rankings/pound-for-pound",
        "https://www.mvpboxing.com/news/boxing/1788321617/1"
      ],
      "names": [
        "Naoya Inoue",
        "Jesse Rodriguez",
        "Oleksandr Usyk",
        "Shakur Stevenson",
        "Dmitry Bivol"
      ],
      "values": [
        1,
        3.1667,
        3.3333,
        4.1667,
        4.6667
      ],
      "alts": [
        "David Benavidez",
        "Jaron Ennis"
      ],
      "note": "CQ selection composite of TBRB (retrieved September 26), BoxingScene (August 4), and Yahoo/Uncrowned September list reproduced by MVP Boxing. Equal-weight mean rank, lower is better; tied publisher positions use midrank; missing = 11. Composite ties break by TBRB, then BoxingScene, then Uncrowned. These source dates differ; this is a dated selection composite, not an official unified boxing ranking."
    },
    "ufc": {
      "basis": "UFC men’s media pound-for-pound ranking snapshot",
      "date": "2026-09-22",
      "url": "https://www.ufcalendar.com/rankings/mens-pound-for-pound",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.ufcalendar.com/rankings/mens-pound-for-pound",
        "https://fightdx.com/rankings/ufc/m/p4p/2026-09-23"
      ],
      "names": [
        "Islam Makhachev",
        "Alexander Volkanovski",
        "Justin Gaethje",
        "Petr Yan",
        "Ilia Topuria"
      ],
      "values": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        4,
        5
      ],
      "alts": [
        "Joshua Van",
        "Sean Strickland"
      ],
      "note": "Traditional UFC media board as reproduced by MMA Calendar, corroborated by FightDX September 23. The current UFC primary page could not be fully retrieved. This is a sourced snapshot, pending primary-source confirmation; UFC scope, not all MMA promotions."
    },
    "golf": {
      "basis": "Official World Golf Ranking, week 38",
      "date": "2026-09-20",
      "url": "https://golftoday.co.uk/official-world-golf-ranking-38-2026/",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/18417",
        "https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/10091",
        "https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/cameron-young-26651",
        "https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/matthew-fitzpatrick-17646",
        "https://www.owgr.com/playerprofile/wyndham-clark-23604"
      ],
      "names": [
        "Scottie Scheffler",
        "Rory McIlroy",
        "Cameron Young",
        "Matt Fitzpatrick",
        "Wyndham Clark"
      ],
      "values": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        4,
        5
      ],
      "alts": [
        "Russell Henley",
        "Chris Gotterup"
      ],
      "note": "Men’s OWGR. Weekly table reported by Golf Today; the five positions were also verified on OWGR player profiles. OWGR measures eligible events, not an unrestricted opinion of all golfers."
    }
  },
  "boxing_rank_inputs": {
    "Naoya Inoue": [
      1,
      1,
      1
    ],
    "Jesse Rodriguez": [
      2,
      3,
      4.5
    ],
    "Oleksandr Usyk": [
      6,
      2,
      2
    ],
    "Shakur Stevenson": [
      3,
      5,
      4.5
    ],
    "Dmitry Bivol": [
      4,
      4,
      6
    ],
    "David Benavidez": [
      5,
      6,
      3
    ],
    "Jaron Ennis": [
      7,
      7,
      8
    ],
    "Devin Haney": [
      11,
      8,
      7
    ],
    "Saul Alvarez": [
      8,
      10,
      11
    ],
    "Junto Nakatani": [
      9,
      11,
      10.5
    ],
    "Oscar Collazo": [
      10,
      9,
      11
    ],
    "Jai Opetaia": [
      11,
      11,
      9
    ]
  }
}