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The 442ball connector for AI assistants

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant about a club's strength, and it can answer with 442ball's own ratings and a link to the 442ball page behind every answer.

What it is

A read-only Model Context Protocol connector. It looks up 442ball's club Power Ratings and league strength: numbers 442ball calculates every week from the results of league, cup and continental matches. Every club and league it names comes with its 442ball page.

It only reads. It cannot change anything, it does not ask you to sign in, and it does not see your conversation: an assistant sends it a club or league name and gets the rating back.

Its address

https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp

Streamable HTTP, no sign-in.

How to add it

Steps checked against each platform's own documentation on 21 October 2026. Menus change; if yours differs, the platform's help pages are the authority. Plans and permissions are those platforms' rules, not ours.

Claude (web and desktop)

  1. Open Customize, then Connectors.
  2. Choose Add custom connector.
  3. Enter a name (for example 442ball) and the URL https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp.
  4. For authentication choose No sign-in, then Add.

Free plans allow one custom connector; Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise more. On Team and Enterprise an Owner adds it under Organization settings, Connectors, then members choose Connect. On the iOS and Android apps, a connector added on web or desktop is available after you sign in: turn it on from the + menu, Connectors.

ChatGPT (web)

  1. Open Plugins, choose the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
  2. Enter a name and, under Connection, the server URL https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp.
  3. Choose No authentication, read the warning, then Create as a plugin and install it.

Which ChatGPT plans offer custom MCP servers, and workspace rules, are set by OpenAI; check your plan.

Perplexity

  1. Open Plugins (or Customize, Connectors), then Add custom, Connector, Add MCP connector, Remote.
  2. Enter a name and the URL https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp; authentication None; transport Streamable HTTP.
  3. Tick the acknowledgement, choose Add, then click the connector to turn it on.

Mistral Le Chat

  1. Open Connectors, choose + Add Connector, then the Custom MCP Connector tab.
  2. Name it 442ball and enter the server URL https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp, then Connect.

An administrator adds connectors; on personal plans that is the account owner.

Google Gemini

In the Gemini web app: Settings, Connected Apps, Add a custom app, enter https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp and follow the steps; then type @ in a chat to use it. Google currently limits this to personal accounts, users 18 or over in the US, in English. Gemini Enterprise administrators add it as a Custom MCP Server data store with No authentication.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

In an agent's Tools page: Add a tool, New tool, Model Context Protocol; enter the URL https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp, authentication None, Create, then Add to agent. We have not found official steps for the consumer Copilot app.

Developer tools

Cursor: add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or a project's .cursor/mcp.json):

{ "mcpServers": { "442ball": { "url": "https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp" } } }

VS Code (GitHub Copilot agent mode): Command Palette, MCP: Add Server, HTTP, enter the URL; or in .vscode/mcp.json:

{ "servers": { "442ball": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.442ball.com/mcp" } } }

On Copilot Business and Enterprise, an organisation admin must turn on the "MCP servers in Copilot" policy. For Claude Desktop, use the connector steps above: its configuration file documents local servers only.

The tools, with a question to try

ToolWhat it doesTry asking
resolveFinds clubs and leagues by name, up to five, with their 442ball pages."Find Bodo/Glimt on 442ball."
club_ratingOne club's latest weekly Power Rating, its band, its rank by rating in its league, its attack and defence indices and its long-run rating."What is Liverpool's 442ball rating?"
compare_clubsTwo clubs side by side. The difference between the ratings is given only when both are rated on the same scale."Compare Arsenal and Liverpool on 442ball."
league_strengthOne league's latest weekly strength and how many clubs it counts."How strong is the Premier League according to 442ball?"
rankingsThe top clubs of one league by rating, 1 to 20 of them."The top 10 La Liga clubs by 442ball rating."
rating_historyOne club's rating month by month, for up to 60 months."Liverpool's 442ball rating month by month over two years."
methodHow the ratings are made, in words, and the method version in use."How does 442ball make its ratings?"
club_runsOne club's current and longest unbeaten, winning, winless and clean-sheet runs, overall, at home and away. Run lengths only."How long is Arsenal unbeaten, according to 442ball?"
league_runsThe clubs of one league with the longest current run of one kind, 1 to 10 of them."Which Serie A clubs have the longest winning runs right now?"
moversThe clubs whose rating rose or fell most between the latest two weekly ratings, in one league, 1 to 10 of them."Who rose most in the Premier League ratings this week?"
league_indexOne league's 442 League Index (0.6 x the mean rating of its top 6 clubs, top 4 in a league of 12 or fewer, + 0.4 x the mean of all its clubs) with both parts, or the top 1 to 20 European leagues by it. European leagues are ranked among European leagues; a league elsewhere carries no rank yet."Where does the Eredivisie sit on the 442 League Index?"
greatest_sidesThe greatest seasons in one league, ranked within that league only, across its finished seasons, on league results; sides are never compared across leagues. Since 2010/11 (or the league's first season in 442ball's record). Six measures, each placed between the league's worst and best on record: points per game 35%, results against the top half 20%, margin over the next side 15%, the weaker of home and away form 10%, longest unbeaten run 10%, goal difference per game 10%. League matches only; cups and continental competitions are not counted. Each side comes with 442ball's score, its rank in the league and its longest unbeaten run. One league, 1 to 20 sides, or one club's best seasons, 1 to 10, each with its league and its rank there. Some leagues are not available yet."What are the greatest La Liga seasons in 442ball's record?"

The limits

What it never returns

Scores, fixtures, results, line-ups, player statistics, any data from the companies that supply 442ball's match data, their identifiers, 442ball's internal identifiers, predictions or odds. It carries only 442ball's own derived numbers: club and league names, 442ball's ratings, and links to 442ball pages.

What is coming

Support

Questions, problems or a correction: hello@442ball.com. How the connector handles data: the privacy notice.