AI Ball — AI football match analysis README

AI Ball MCP server

Read-only Model Context Protocol server for AI Ball, AI football match analysis.

It gives an AI assistant two things:

Pre-kick-off outcome probabilities. For each match, the model's home / draw / away probabilities as recorded before kick-off.
The open record. What happened afterwards: the final score and whether the model's most likely outcome came in. Misses are counted the same way as hits, and nothing is removed after the fact.

No account, no API key. The server only calls AI Ball's public record API.

Tools

Tool	What it returns
`list_matches`	One calendar day: `match_id`, kick-off time, league, teams and status (`upcoming`, `pending` or `finished`)
`get_match_analysis`	One match: home / draw / away probabilities recorded before kick-off, the most likely outcome, confidence, when the read was captured, and once played the score and whether it came in
`get_open_record`	The whole record, or one week with `week_start`: matches counted, how many went the model's way, two baselines on the same matches, and the count by confidence band

Every tool is read-only (readOnlyHint: true). Names are available in English (lang: "en") and Malay (lang: "ms"). Responses are built from a fixed list of fields; nothing from the upstream API is passed through as-is.

Reading the numbers

models.balanced holds fractions for home, draw and away that sum to 1. This version returns the balanced model; models_available lists what is included.
result.hit is true when the model's most likely outcome happened.
hit_rate is a percentage. null means the sample is under min_band_sample, so use the counts hits and n instead.
favourite_baseline scores the same matches by always taking the pre-match favourite; random_baseline is one outcome in three.
upcoming matches are locked before kick-off. pending matches carry a current read that may still change.

The server caches each upstream response for five minutes and spaces its requests, so repeated questions do not hit AI Ball's API again.

Hosted version

Prefer not to install anything? The same record is served over MCP at:

Code

https://aiball.samagent.ai/mcp

Streamable HTTP, no sign-in, read-only. It has the three tools below plus get_match_context (head-to-head, recent form, injuries and fixtures for finished matches only). Rate limit: 60 requests a minute per IP.

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http aiball https://aiball.samagent.ai/mcp

Install (local version)

Claude Desktop

Download aiball-mcp.mcpb from the latest release and open it.

Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add aiball -- npx -y github:aiballfooty/aiball-mcp

Cursor, VS Code and other clients

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiball": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:aiballfooty/aiball-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Requires Node.js 18 or later.

Example questions

"How did AI Ball's model do on last week's matches?"
"Which of last week's matches did the model get wrong?"
"What are the model's probabilities for today's matches, in Malaysia time?"
"Across the whole record, does the model do better than always taking the favourite?"

Privacy

The server runs on your machine and sends requests only to https://aiball.samagent.ai/api/v1. Requests carry the tool's parameters (a date, a time zone, a language) and a User-Agent of aiball-mcp/<version>. They do not carry your conversation, your files or any identifier. AI Ball's web server keeps standard access logs. Site privacy policy: https://aiball.samagent.ai/en/privacy

Development

Terminal

npm install
npm test        # starts the server and calls every tool against the live API

Set AIBALL_API_BASE to point the server at another base URL.

Licence

MIT. For information only. Not advice. 18+.