Ben Toner
Over the last 10 Championship games Ben Toner has officiated, the average is 3.50 cards a match — 13% below the league average of 4.01. That's 3.5 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.2 to 1.3 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 14.8% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 10 awarded in 39 matches, 0.26 a game against a league average of 0.17. 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 Ben Toner turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Championship season on record.
| Measure | Toner | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.46 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.11× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.8% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 25.0 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.26 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 10 in 39 | — |
| Red cards shown | 6 | — |
| Matches on record | 39 (20 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Ben Toner took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol City v Stoke City2 May | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Birmingham City v Preston North End22 Apr | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Charlton Athletic v Bristol City3 Apr | 1–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Southampton v Oxford United21 Mar | 2–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Norwich v Sheffield United11 Mar | 2–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Preston North End v Millwall28 Feb | 0–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Watford v Ipswich24 Feb | 0–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
| Leicester v Southampton10 Feb | 3–4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Ben Toner give per game?
Ben Toner averages 4.46 cards a game across 39 Championship matches — 11% above the league average of 4.01. On a Ben Toner appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.11.
Is Ben Toner a strict referee?
No — slightly more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Ben Toner runs at 17.8% 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 Ben Toner'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 Ben Toner's card rate?
It rests on 39 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, an opponent factor and de-vigging, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.