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Recent GitHub issues show serious reliability trouble: 502 errors on the API since September 2026, a claim it moved behind authentication, then Cloudflare 403 challenges. Projects are adding fallbacks or HTML scraping.", "sentiment": "negative", "topics": ["reliability", "free_tier", "data_quality"], "pros": ["Long Elo history and free CSV access", "Popular input for prediction models"], "cons": ["API returning 502 since Sept 2026", "Cloudflare 403 challenges block scrapers", "Reported move behind authentication", "Pipelines need fallbacks"], "evidence": ["https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata/issues/977", "https://github.com/jake-thewoz/fpl-stats/issues/160", "https://github.com/sergeykuznetsov1995/data-platform-football/issues/1841", "https://github.com/yannvillellas/mpp-autopilot/issues/5", "https://github.com/wvanlief/football_website/issues/164"]}, "discussions_list": [], "repos": [{"platform": "github", "title": "machina-sports/sports-skills", "url": "https://github.com/machina-sports/sports-skills", "date": "2026-11-02", "score": 262.0, "where": null}, {"platform": "github", "title": "olbauday/FPL-Core-Insights", "url": "https://github.com/olbauday/FPL-Core-Insights", "date": "2026-11-03", "score": 225.0, "where": null}, {"platform": "github", "title": "FCrSTATS/ClubMatchR", "url": "https://github.com/FCrSTATS/ClubMatchR", "date": "2018-05-13", "score": 10.0, "where": null}, {"platform": "github", "title": "arroznatwitch/gofoot-tools", "url": "https://github.com/arroznatwitch/gofoot-tools", "date": "2026-10-28", "score": 3.0, "where": null}, {"platform": "github", "title": "xgabora/Football-Dataset-Ingesting", "url": "https://github.com/xgabora/Football-Dataset-Ingesting", "date": "2025-05-10", "score": 3.0, "where": null}, {"platform": "github", "title": "Rekicho/SimELO", "url": "https://github.com/Rekicho/SimELO", "date": "2021-12-01", "score": 2.0, "where": null}], "videos": [{"title": "Desvendando o Futuro: Previsões de Futebol com a API do ClubeLo", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXY1gtOm11c", "channel": "RuiTrader", "date": "2024-01-28"}, {"title": "EASIEST Model to Forecast Football Matches With ELO | Excel Beginner Tutorial", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojUBRuBwE7s", "channel": "Excel LADZ", "date": "2023-01-31"}, {"title": "Sportwetten: Football Elo Ratings [3/3] - Tauglich für Sportwetten?", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYYBSXkFPE", "channel": "Stefan Sopala", "date": "2019-07-05"}], "notes": "Crawled pages and API page fetch returned only the site homepage, so CSV/free/1939 details come from catalog notes. Medium certainty.", "checked_at": "2026-11-03", "alternatives": ["football-charts", "sportsdataverse", "sportmonks", "stats-perform", "timeform"], "fit": {"best_for": "Researchers and modellers wanting free club football Elo ratings and fixture probabilities as CSV.", "not_for": "Projects needing live scores, player data or detailed match stats; it offers ratings and probabilities only.", "use_cases": ["Club strength ratings", "Match probability models", "Historical rating research"], "limitations": ["CSV interface only", "Details partly from catalog notes, saved pages showed only the home page", "No terms page saved"], "source_urls": ["http://clubelo.com/API"]}, "score": {"overall": 45, "popularity": 25, "community": null, "transparency": 75, "developer": 51, "confidence": "none", "reliability_flags": [], "rank": 92}}