sports-mcp-server MCP Server

Get live scores, schedules, standings, team and player data for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and soccer.

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Published as @cyanheads/sports-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

Most discussed

bug(sports_find_team): espnId and mlbId always null — TSDB records win deduplication over ESPN/MLB records

sports_find_team promises to return ESPN/MLB/TheSportsDB IDs in its output schema (espnId, mlbId, tsdbId) and description ("Returns...ESPN/MLB/TheSportsDB IDs"), but espnId and mlbId are always null in practice. The handler appends TheSportsDB results first, then fetches ESPN/MLB matches — but the final deduplication step (by displayName, case-insensitive) always keeps the TSDB record and drops the ESPN/MLB record when both reference the same team.

Steps to reproduce

Call

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments

feat(config): declare stateless session mode in createApp

Use case

The server should declare its stateless session posture in source so launches with no MCP_SESSION_MODE override behave consistently across npm, bunx, source, and Docker.

Proposed behavior

After cyanheads/mcp-ts-core#376 adds a server-level createApp session-mode option, set the default to stateless in src/index.ts. An explicit MCP_SESSION_MODE environment value must retain precedence.

Alternatives considered

Changing the framework-wide auto default would alt

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · open · 1 comment

bug(docker): run ESPN-backed serving on Node

Server version

0.2.0

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Bun

Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

Description

The Docker production command runs the server under Bun, and Bun's HTTP clients receive HTTP 403 from ESPN's public Site API while Node and curl receive HTTP 200 for the same endpoint. The failure is runtime-specific; the evidence does not establish a TLS-fingerprint cause.

Steps to reproduce

Fetch `https://site.api.espn.co

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · closed · 1 comment

enhancement(tool-defs): tighten MCP-facing descriptions

Use case

Tool schemas should describe a tool's capability and each field's value without repeating cross-tool sequencing instructions or exposing routing details. Server-level instructions already carry the supported workflows.

Proposed behavior

Tighten the identified tool and field descriptions. Remove cross-tool imperatives from tool catalog text, keep workflow examples in createApp({ instructions }), retain the fact that sport is advisory in its own input description, and descr

Read the thread · 2026-06-28 · closed · 1 comment

docs(sports_find_player): README still says sport narrows results

Use case

Users reading the README need to know that sports_find_player.sport does not narrow results. The shipped tool accepts it only as an advisory disambiguation hint.

Proposed behavior

Replace the stale sports_find_player README bullet with language that calls sport an advisory hint and states that matching players are returned regardless of its value.

Alternatives considered

Implementing server-side sport filtering is separate product work: TheSportsDB search does not

Read the thread · 2026-06-28 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

bug(sports_get_schedule): honor league-wide date ranges

Server version

0.2.0

mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

Runtime

Node.js and Bun

Runtime version

Node 26.5.0 / Bun 1.4.0

Transport

stdio and HTTP (shared handler)

Description

League-wide sports_get_schedule requests discard supplied date ranges before making their upstream request. With no team_name, the MLB path always calls getSchedule(null) and the ESPN path always calls getScoreboard(..., null); the later local filter cannot recover games that were never fet

Read the thread · 2026-06-28 · closed · 1 comment

ux(all tools): error content[] missing recovery hints — ctx.fail() called without recovery hint at throw sites

All tool errors[] contracts declare recovery strings, but none of the ctx.fail() call sites pass { recovery: { hint: '...' } } as a third argument. As a result, content[0].text only contains the bare error message with no actionable next step. Per the framework docs, the recovery hint from the contract definition does not auto-populate the wire — it must be passed explicitly at the throw site.

Steps to reproduce

Call sports_get_standings with `{ league: "nfl", season: "180

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 1 comment

ux(sports_find_player): sport filter is silently ignored but described as narrowing results

The sport parameter on sports_find_player claims to "narrow results" but has no effect on the results returned. TheSportsDB search does not support server-side sport filtering, and the handler logs a debug message acknowledging this but still tells callers the filter will work.

Steps to reproduce

Call sports_find_player with { query: \"Messi\", sport: \"Curling\" }
Observe totalFound: 1 — same result as without the sport parameter

Actual behavior

Sport parameter is

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 1 comment

bug(sports_get_standings): soccer leagues return season_not_found during off-season instead of empty standings

sports_get_standings throws season_not_found for soccer leagues (epl, mls, laliga, bundesliga, seriea, ligue1, ucl) whenever the current season returns an empty ESPN response. The error is identical to the response for a genuinely bad season year, so callers can't distinguish "off-season, try again in August" from "your season parameter is wrong".

Steps to reproduce

Call sports_get_standings with { league: \"epl\" } (no season)
Observe isError: true, `reason: "season_no

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 1 comment

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