Benjamin Brand
Over the last 10 Bundesliga games Benjamin Brand has officiated, the average is 3.80 cards a match — 7% below the league average of 4.07. That splits 3.6 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.1 to 1.7 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 40% of those games (4 of 10), from a 18.6% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 21 awarded in 54 matches, 0.39 a game against a league average of 0.32. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Benjamin Brand turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Bundesliga season on record.
| Measure | Brand | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.36 | 4.07 |
| vs league | 1.07× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 19.3% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 22.6 | 22.1 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.39 | 0.32 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 21 in 54 | — |
| Red cards shown | 12 | — |
| Matches on record | 55 (16 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Bundesliga games Benjamin Brand took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC Bayern München v 1. FC Union Berlin18 Sep | 7–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | 21 |
| SV Werder Bremen v RB Leipzig5 Sep | 3–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| VfL Wolfsburg v SC Paderborn 0721 May | 0–0 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| RB Leipzig v FC St. Pauli9 May | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen v FC Augsburg18 Apr | 1–2 | 3 1 pen | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| VfL Wolfsburg v SV Werder Bremen21 Mar | 0–1 | 3 1 red | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22 |
| SC Freiburg v Bayer 04 Leverkusen7 Mar | 3–3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| RB Leipzig v Borussia Dortmund21 Feb | 2–2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Benjamin Brand give per game?
Benjamin Brand averages 4.36 cards a game across 55 Bundesliga matches — 7% above the league average of 4.07. On a Benjamin Brand appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.07.
Is Benjamin Brand a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Benjamin Brand runs at 19.3% against a league average of 18.4%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Benjamin Brand's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Benjamin Brand's card rate?
It rests on 55 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.