442ball

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Weekly football club Power Ratings, league strength, runs and greatest sides

442ball is a football publication at 442ball.com. Its MCP connector gives AI assistants and agents 442ball's own weekly club Power Ratings and the ratings built on them, and every answer links to the 442ball page of each club and league it names. It is for football fans, writers, analysts, fantasy players and developers who want a sourced answer to questions like how strong a club is right now, which league is stronger, or who the greatest sides in a league's history are. An agent can look up a club's current Power Rating, its league rank and its band, which is the range the rating is expected to sit within. It can compare two clubs side by side, show how a club's rating has moved over time, rank the clubs in a league and give that league's strength, and compare European leagues on the 442 League Index. It can also find the week's biggest risers and fallers, a club's current and longest runs, the longest runs in a league, and the greatest sides in a league's history since 2010/11, and it can explain in plain words how the ratings are calculated. 442ball calculates the ratings itself from the results of league, cup and continental matches, weighing each result by the strength of the opponent, and recalculates them every Monday. The method was fitted on the 2010 to 2018 seasons and tested on 2019 to 2025. The ratings measure how strong results have been; they are not predictions or odds. The connector is read-only, needs no account or API key, and runs over streamable HTTP at https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp. It never returns scores, fixtures, lineups, player statistics or data from 442ball's football data provider. It is listed in the Claude connectors directory and the official MCP Registry.

Problem it solves

League tables cannot be compared across leagues, and AI assistants often guess or cite unsourced figures on club strength. 442ball gives agents one weekly, consistent rating for clubs and leagues, with a link to the source page behind every answer.

How it's different

442ball's own ratings, built from finished results and weighted by opponent strength, not odds or outside ratings. Each rating shows its band, leagues share one index, history goes back to 2010/11, and every answer links to its page. Read-only, no account.

Features

Weekly club Power Ratings, updated every Monday
Club rating, league rank and band
Two clubs compared side by side
Rating history over time
League rankings and league strength
442 League Index of European leagues
Weekly biggest risers and fallers
Current and longest runs, by club and league
Greatest sides in each league since 2010/11
Plain-words method explanation
Every answer links to its 442ball page
Read-only, no account, no API key

From the maker

I am building 442ball because I wanted one honest answer to a question football fans argue about every week: how strong is a club really, and how does one league compare with another? League tables cannot answer that across leagues, so 442ball calculates its own club Power Ratings every Monday from finished results, weighed by the strength of each opponent. As more people ask AI assistants about football, I wanted those answers to come from a consistent, sourced rating rather than a guess. So the ratings are also available through this read-only connector, and every answer links back to the 442ball page of the club or league it names, so anyone can check where a number came from. I would love feedback from anyone who tries it in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other client.

Tools this endpoint exposes

Read directly from the endpoint on 3 Nov 2026. Not supplied by the maker.

resolve
Finds clubs and leagues by name and returns up to five, each with its 442ball slug and page URL. Use it first when you have a name, then pass the slug to the other tools. The query is 2 to 60 characte
club_rating
Returns one club's latest weekly 442ball Power Rating: the rating, its band, its rank by rating in its league, its attack and defence indices and its long-run rating, with the club and league page URL
compare_clubs
Returns two clubs' latest 442ball Power Ratings side by side. The difference between the ratings is given only when both clubs are rated on the same scale; otherwise the answer says why it is withheld
league_strength
Returns one league's latest weekly 442ball league strength and how many clubs it counts, with the league page URL. Takes the league slug from resolve.
rankings
Returns the top clubs of one league by 442ball Power Rating at the latest weekly snapshot, 1 to 20 of them (default 10), each with its page URL. Takes the league slug from resolve. There is no list ac
rating_history
Returns one club's 442ball Power Rating month by month (the last weekly value of each month) for the latest 1 to 60 months (default 24), with the club page URL. Takes the club slug from resolve.
method
Explains in words how 442ball calculates its club Power Ratings and league strength, what the band means, and which method version is in use.
club_runs
Returns one club's current and longest runs from the results 442ball holds: unbeaten, winning, winless and clean sheets, overall, at home and away, with the longest this season and since 2010. Run len