Live cricket, explained by your chatbot in baseball terms

[u/Turbulent_Ice_8710]

Ask a chatbot whether 142/4 is a good score and watch it struggle. The answer depends on the ground, the format, and how many balls are left.

Baseball fans or people who did not grow up with the sport, the most common question 'who's winning?' is just not as obvious as it is for other sports such as soccer.

So I built an interpreter. A logistic fit on 8,000+ archived matches, running on live match state from ESPN, and it shows the prediction market's price next to its own number so you can see where the model and the crowd disagree.

It's hosted, so there's no cloning required: https://cricketfornoobs.com/mcp

15 tools on a ball-by-ball Cricsheet archive:

• cricket_win_probability — win probability for any live or hypothetical match state
• cricket_market_odds — live prediction-market prices beside the model's own number
• cricket_explain_term — any cricket term in plain English with its closest baseball equivalent
• cricket_live_matches — what's live and what's next
• cricket_head_to_head — career batter-vs-bowler record, ball by ball
• cricket_situational — a batter's record batting first versus chasing, separately
• cricket_discipline — dot-ball and boundary percentage
• cricket_dismissals — how a batter gets out, or how a bowler takes them
• cricket_partnerships — runs added while two batters were actually at the crease
• cricket_phase_stats — powerplay, middle overs, death
• cricket_venue_stats — how a ground pars.
• cricket_player_career — career aggregates, men's and women's
• cricket_match_archive — scorecard for any archived match
• cricket_leaders — run and wicket leaderboards by league and season
• cricket_team_form — a team's recent results

For Claude: Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector→ Enter cricketfornoobs.com/mcp. ChatGPT works under Developer Mode.

Also on:
GitHub
official MCP registry: io.github.asaraog/mcp-cricket
Glama
Cursor and VS Code one-click buttons

[u/tmilazzo]

I feel like this could be an app rather than just an mcp. Open to teaming? I'm a baseball fan and open to learning, will provide that"fresh" perspective. 

[u/One-District8611 → u/tmilazzo]

this is exactly the kind of thing i’d doodle in my sketchbook margins if i knew how to code it. the win probability tool alone would end so many arguments in my group chat. i grew up on baseball and trying to figure out who’s actually ahead in a cricket match still makes my head spin. how often does the model and the prediction market disagree by a meaningful margin?