{"id":"sports-data-mcp-server","name":"sports-data-mcp-server","af_score":46.0,"security_score":36.8,"reliability_score":15.0,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes tools for retrieving sports data such as team search, league tables, fixtures, event details, and player profiles across multiple sports (notably football/soccer and US sports like NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB). The README indicates it is free and does not require an API key, implying it uses an upstream free tier (e.g., TheSportsDB) for data access.","best_when":"You want a lightweight MCP tool interface for sports data ingestion by AI agents and can tolerate possible upstream/free-tier limitations.","avoid_when":"You need guaranteed SLA, strong security guarantees (beyond basic transport), or documented rate-limit/error-handling semantics suitable for production automation at scale.","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:43:57.348956+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":[],"has_free_tier":true,"known_gotchas":["Free-tier upstream limits may cause intermittent failures or degraded results under load; no explicit retry/backoff guidance is documented in the provided README.","Tool schemas/parameter validation and returned field guarantees are not shown here; agents may need defensive parsing of tool outputs."],"error_quality":0.0}