sportiq-mcp 0.2.3

MCP server for FIFA World Cup 2026 football, Formula 1, and IPL cricket intelligence tools.

sportiq-mcp

MCP server exposing AI-callable tools across FIFA World Cup 2026 football, Formula 1, and IPL cricket.

SportIQ running live in Claude and ChatGPT — Monte Carlo World Cup bracket, F1 pit strategy, and lineup optimisation, each backed by a visible MCP tool call. (full 1-min demo)

Three flagship intelligence tools sit on top of raw-data primitives:

• football_simulate_bracket — Monte Carlo with Poisson xG projects World Cup qualification probabilities.
• f1_predict_pit_strategy — tyre-degradation model on OpenF1 telemetry recommends stop laps and compounds.
• cricket_build_dream11_team — PuLP constraint solver picks a valid 11 under credit/role/team caps.

Try it now, no install: a public instance is live on Cloud Run. Add https://sportiq-mcp-329580761892.us-central1.run.app/mcp as a custom connector in claude.ai or ChatGPT — see Use the hosted SportIQ. Open source, read-only, no data collection — why it's safe.

Status

44 tools live: 7 football RAW + 8 football INTEL + 6 F1 RAW + 7 F1 INTEL + 6 cricket RAW + 8 cricket INTEL + 1 cross-sport + sportiq_health. All three flagships shipped: football_simulate_bracket (Monte Carlo + Poisson xG over the 48-team WC 2026 format), f1_predict_pit_strategy (tyre-degradation on OpenF1 telemetry), and cricket_build_dream11_team (PuLP ILP).

Football tools (FIFA World Cup 2026)

RAW

Tool	Description
football_get_groups	WC 2026 group draw (12 groups of 4) + advancement format
football_get_fixtures	Fixtures (live providers, else the group schedule)
football_get_standings	Current group standings
football_get_squad	National-team squad
football_get_match_stats	Team aggregate tournament statistics
football_get_top_scorers	Tournament top scorers
football_get_odds	Live market head-to-head odds for upcoming WC 2026 matches

INTEL

Tool	Type	Description
football_xg_model	INTEL	Expected goals + win/draw/loss probabilities (Elo-driven Poisson)
football_match_predictor	INTEL	Most likely scoreline + outcome for one match
football_simulate_group	INTEL	Monte Carlo a group into qualification probabilities
football_simulate_bracket	FLAGSHIP	Monte Carlo the full 48-team WC into per-team round + title probabilities
football_knockout_path	INTEL	Round-by-round survival probabilities for one team
football_form_trends	INTEL	Rolling form, goal record, and xG trend for a team
football_find_value_bets	INTEL	Largest gaps between model win probability and market-implied probability
football_build_accumulator	INTEL	Joint probability of several match outcomes under the model

The 2026 format (48 teams, 12 groups, top 2 + 8 best thirds → 32-team knockout) is encoded in wc2026.json. Data sources: API-Football (APIFOOTBALL_KEY) → football-data.org (free, token optional) → bundled wc2026.json seed.

F1 Tools

RAW

Tool	Description
f1_get_sessions	List F1 race/qualifying/practice sessions by year
f1_get_drivers	Driver list for a session
f1_get_lap_times	Per-driver lap times (compound lives on stints, not laps)
f1_get_standings	Driver + constructor championship standings
f1_get_race_results	Final race classification by year + round (Jolpica)
f1_get_weather	Track weather data (temp, rainfall, wind)

INTEL

Tool	Type	Description
f1_tyre_degradation	INTEL	Fit linear tyre-degradation model per compound
f1_undercut_window	INTEL	Is an undercut viable vs a target driver?
f1_head_to_head_pace	INTEL	Lap-time pace comparison between two drivers
f1_weather_strategy_impact	INTEL	Weather-based compound recommendation
f1_qualifying_analysis	INTEL	Best lap per driver, gap to pole, projected grid
f1_race_pace_compare	INTEL	Race-pace + tyre-degradation comparison between two drivers
f1_predict_pit_strategy	FLAGSHIP	Predict optimal pit stops + compound sequence

Data sources: OpenF1 (free, keyless) → Jolpica → fastf1 (optional, offline, pip install sportiq-mcp[f1]).

Cricket tools

RAW

Tool	What it does
cricket_get_live_matches	All currently live matches across all series
cricket_get_scorecard	Full scorecard for a match by ID
cricket_get_points_table	Series standings / points table
cricket_get_schedule	Upcoming fixtures, optionally by series
cricket_get_squad	Team roster; always succeeds via static seed fallback
cricket_get_live_odds	Live market head-to-head odds for upcoming/live IPL matches

INTEL

Tool	What it does
cricket_build_dream11_team	Optimal fantasy XI + C/VC under T20 role/credit constraints
cricket_captain_recommendation	Top-3 captain candidates by projected points
cricket_differential_picks	Low-ownership picks with projected upside (ownership estimated)
cricket_player_form_index	0-100 form score from career stats + (future) recent innings
cricket_get_pitch_report	Pitch friendliness + recommendation for a venue
cricket_head_to_head	Compare two teams head-to-head using squad form and player stats
cricket_player_matchup	Head-to-head matchup between two players by role and career stats
cricket_find_value_bets	Compare model probabilities against market-implied IPL odds (requires THEODDS_KEY)

The lineup solver uses CBC via PuLP. On macOS arm64 install with brew install cbc; the binary bundled with PuLP is x86-only and won't run on Apple Silicon.

Cross-sport tools

Tool	Type	Description
cross_sport_build_accumulator	INTEL	Joint multi-match model across football and cricket

Diagnostics

Tool	Description
sportiq_health	Cache backend + per-adapter status and remaining API quota

Cricket adapter defaults

By default only CricAPI (key required) and static data are active. Opt-in adapters:

SPORTIQ_ENABLE_NDTV=1         # NDTV Sports scraper (operator accepts ToS risk)
SPORTIQ_ENABLE_CRICBUZZ=1     # Cricbuzz scraper (operator accepts ToS risk)
RAPIDAPI_KEY=your_key         # Licensed Cricbuzz mirror via RapidAPI

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in keys.

RapidAPI Hub MCP servers

.mcp.json also wires three external RapidAPI Hub MCP servers (Sportspage Feeds, Football Prediction, Live Sports Odds) via mcp-remote. Because .mcp.json is committed, the API key is a placeholder — replace each <RAPIDAPI_KEY> in .mcp.json with your real RapidAPI key locally to enable them. They run as separate MCP servers and do not affect the in-process sportiq tools.

SportIQ Pro

The raw-data tools and sportiq_health are free and need no key. The intelligence tools — everything in the INTEL sections above, including the three flagships — require a SportIQ Pro key.

Get one by sponsoring the project at github.com/sponsors/Ninjabeam20 — $10/mo, or a one-time $49 for lifetime access (first 50 backers). Your sponsorship welcome email contains two things: your Pro key and your personal connector link. Which one you use depends on how you run SportIQ:

How you run SportIQ	What to enter	Where
PyPI / uvx / Claude Desktop config / IDEs (local install)	Enter your key normally as the SPORTIQ_PRO_KEY env var	Claude Desktop config
claude.ai (web), ChatGPT, or Claude Desktop (no install)	Add your personal connector link as a custom connector	Use the hosted SportIQ

Important — to use Pro in Claude or ChatGPT you must add the connector link from your welcome email. It looks like https://sportiq-mcp-329580761892.us-central1.run.app/u/<your-key>/mcp (your key is built into the link). Add it as a custom connector with No authentication — there is no separate "enter your key" box in claude.ai or ChatGPT, so the key travels inside the link. The plain …/mcp URL (without your key) only exposes the free tools.

Install

# from PyPI
uvx sportiq-mcp

# from source
git clone https://github.com/Ninjabeam20/SportIQ-MCP
cd sportiq-mcp
uv sync
uv run python -m sportiq.server

Claude Desktop config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sportiq": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["sportiq-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SPORTIQ_PRO_KEY": "sq_your_pro_key",
        "CRICAPI_KEY": "your_cricapi_key",
        "APIFOOTBALL_KEY": "your_apifootball_key",
        "THEODDS_KEY": "your_theodds_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

All env vars are optional — the server boots and serves seed/free-source data without any keys. Add SPORTIQ_PRO_KEY (from a sponsorship) to unlock the intelligence tools, or a data-source key to unlock the source it gates (e.g. THEODDS_KEY). F1 and most football tools use free, keyless sources.

Use the hosted SportIQ (no install — works on claude.ai web & ChatGPT)

A public instance is already running on Google Cloud Run. Add this URL as a custom connector and SportIQ shows up in your AI's tool list — nothing to install:

https://sportiq-mcp-329580761892.us-central1.run.app/mcp

The hosted instance runs without any API keys, so the free tools work out of the box: standings, schedules, squads, fixtures, and the data tools — plus the World Cup 2026 bracket simulation (football_simulate_bracket, the 10,000-iteration Monte Carlo) is open here as a free showcase. Live-score and live-odds tools (which need rate-limited paid keys) are off on the shared instance — self-host with your own keys if you need those (see below).

To unlock the rest of the Pro intelligence tools here (group simulations, knockout paths, match predictions, F1 strategy & tyre models, lineup optimisation), add the personal connector link from your sponsorship welcome email instead of the plain URL — same steps below, but paste your …/u/<your-key>/mcp link. Run the free bracket sim first to see what the models do.

Add to Claude (easiest)

1. claude.ai (web): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
2. Name it SportIQ and paste the URL. For free tools, paste the plain …/mcp URL above; for Pro, paste your personal …/u/<your-key>/mcp link from your welcome email and pick No authentication. Save — the tools appear immediately.
3. Claude Desktop: same path (Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector), or use the uvx config below to run it locally with your key as SPORTIQ_PRO_KEY.

Add to ChatGPT

ChatGPT needs Developer Mode turned on first:

1. Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings → enable Developer mode.
2. In Settings, make sure "use connected apps" (the connectors/tools toggle) is enabled so the model is allowed to call them.
3. Back in Apps & Connectors → Create / Add app (MCP) → paste the URL, give it the name SportIQ, select No authentication, and connect. For free tools use the plain …/mcp URL above; for Pro, paste your personal …/u/<your-key>/mcp link from your welcome email (the key rides inside the link — ChatGPT has no separate key field).
4. Once it shows Connected, start a chat and ask something like "Use SportIQ to simulate the World Cup 2026 bracket" — ChatGPT will call the tools.

First request after an idle period takes ~5–10s (the server scales to zero when unused, so it has to wake up). After that it's fast.

Is it safe to use?

Yes — and here's exactly why, so you can verify rather than take our word for it:

• Completely open source, MIT licensed. Every line is on GitHub and the package is published on PyPI with signed build attestations. Read the code before you connect it.
• Independently reviewed by AI code-audit agents before launch — a full MCP-rubric audit (verdict: ship-ready, no security findings, no secret leak) plus a multi-agent secret/code sweep (verdict: clean). The findings are written up in SECURITY.md so you can check them — and re-run your own audit, since the whole codebase is public.
• Read-only. The tools only fetch and analyse public sports data. There are no write, delete, payment, email, or file-system tools — nothing that can change anything on your side.
• No data collection. SportIQ doesn't ask for, store, or transmit your personal data, prompts, or account info. It answers a tool call and forgets it.
• The hosted instance holds no secrets. It runs with zero API keys, so there's nothing for anyone to steal and no quota of yours to burn.
• Hardened. Upstream content is treated as data (never instructions), API keys are redacted from all logs, payloads are size-capped, and scrapers are opt-in only. See SECURITY.md for the full trust model.

Is the data fresh? Yes. Live sources are polled continuously and cached with tight freshness windows — live scores refresh every ~30s, F1 telemetry every ~10s, standings every ~10min, fixtures every ~6h. Every response carries a meta.is_stale flag and a data age, so the AI tells you exactly how fresh each answer is (e.g. "as of about 4 minutes ago…") instead of guessing. Caching protects free-tier quotas — it never serves you knowingly outdated data without flagging it.

Self-host (your own instance, with live keys)

Prefer to run your own? Set SPORTIQ_TRANSPORT=http and the server serves the MCP endpoint at /mcp (binds 0.0.0.0:$PORT). A ready-to-build Dockerfile is included. See cloud.md for a step-by-step Google Cloud Run deploy (free tier), then add your own https://…/mcp URL as a connector. With your own keys set as env vars, the live-score and odds tools come online too.

Environment variables

Var	Unlocks	Free tier
SPORTIQ_PRO_KEY	The 24 SportIQ Pro intelligence tools — sponsor to get a key	—
APIFOOTBALL_KEY	Live football fixtures / standings / squads / scorers	100 req/day
THEODDS_KEY	Market odds (football + cricket probability tools)	500 req/month
FOOTBALLDATA_KEY	football-data.org fallback (token optional)	10 req/min
CRICAPI_KEY	Live cricket scores / scorecards / schedules / squads	100 req/day
RAPIDAPI_KEY	Paid Cricbuzz fallback (player career stats)	plan-dependent
SPORTIQ_ENABLE_NDTV / SPORTIQ_ENABLE_CRICBUZZ	Opt-in cricket scrapers (off by default — ToS)	—
REDIS_URL	Shared cache backend (defaults to local diskcache)	—
SPORTIQ_LOG_LEVEL / SPORTIQ_LOG_FORMAT	Log verbosity / pretty|json output	—
SPORTIQ_TRANSPORT	stdio (default, local) or http (remote/Cloud Run)	—

Transport: stdio by default (local subprocess — the right fit for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and IDEs). Set SPORTIQ_TRANSPORT=http to serve the streamable-HTTP endpoint at /mcp for remote/web clients (the hosted instance above runs in this mode).

Develop

uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run python -m sportiq.server

See CLAUDE.md for collaboration rules and docs/index.md for the wiki entry point.

Data sources & credits

SportIQ derives some model constants offline from open datasets. Raw datasets are never shipped or fetched at runtime — only small derived seeds (circuits.json, venues.json, elo_seed.json) are committed.

• F1DB — Formula 1 database (1950–present), licensed CC BY 4.0. Used offline to derive per-circuit stop counts and lap lengths in f1/data/circuits.json; per-circuit pit loss is measured offline from OpenF1 lap data (in-lap + out-lap vs clean-lap baseline).
• Cricsheet — free ball-by-ball IPL match data. Used offline to derive measured venue scoring priors (cricket/data/venues.json); we ship only derived aggregates, never the raw match data.
• martj42 international football results — match results 1872–present, CC0. Used offline for Elo backtesting.
• OpenF1 — free, keyless live F1 telemetry (runtime source).
• football-data.org — free football data; their free tier requests a credit link (runtime source).

License & author

Created and maintained by Utkarsh Gupta (@Ninjabeam20).

Licensed under the MIT License — © 2026 Utkarsh Gupta. You may use, copy, and modify this software, but the copyright notice and this permission must be retained in all copies or substantial portions. The canonical package is sportiq-mcp on PyPI and io.github.Ninjabeam20/sportiq-mcp in the official MCP registry.