A side-by-side look at the Ball Ranks and Football Odds History MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Ball Ranks for sports work; choose Football Odds History for sports as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Ball Ranks when
You need dedicated capabilities in the Sports domain.
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Football Odds History tools
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
Ball Ranks
No confirmed install command for Ball Ranks yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
Ball Ranks is categorized under Sports and uses an install path we have not confirmed yet. Football Odds History belongs to Sports and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Ball Ranks for sports work and Football Odds History for sports.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client. Ball Ranks has no confirmed install command yet — follow its own setup instructions.
Ball Ranks has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. Auth: no auth required. Football Odds History is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add ball-ranks-2 and football-odds-history as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Ball Ranks has a quality signal of 31/100 (Emerging) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. Football Odds History has 37/100 (Fair) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars.