David Coote
David Coote has retired from refereeing. The figures below are a complete Championship career record — fixed from here, with nothing more to add. Over the last 10 Championship games David Coote has officiated, the average is 4.50 cards a match — 12% above the league average of 4.01. That's 4.5 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.6 to 1.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 40% of those games (4 of 10), from a 22.1% foul-to-booking rate. 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 David Coote 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 | Coote | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.55 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.13× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 22.1% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 20.5 | 21.9 |
| Red cards shown | 0 | — |
| Matches on record | 11 (0 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games David Coote took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry City v Oxford United16 Aug | 3–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16 |
| Ipswich v West Brom10 Feb | 2–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| Watford v Ipswich12 Dec | 1–2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 28 |
| Stoke City v Sheffield Wednesday9 Dec | 0–1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| Sunderland v Southampton2 Sep | 5–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 30 |
| Middlesbrough v Coventry City17 May | 0–1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 23 |
| Sunderland v Reading11 Feb | 1–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| Burnley v Blackburn Rovers13 Nov | 3–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 21 |
David Coote has officiated only 11 matches on our record — a thin sample. The model shrinks a thin referee tendency toward the league average and discounts its confidence until the evidence builds, so read the numbers above gently.
Frequently asked
How many cards does David Coote give per game?
David Coote averages 4.55 cards a game across 11 Championship matches — 13% above the league average of 4.01. That's a raw rate from only 11 matches, so the model shrinks it toward the league average rather than trusting it outright.
Is David Coote a strict referee?
Yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and David Coote runs at 22.1% 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 David Coote'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 David Coote's card rate?
It rests on 11 career matches, still a thin sample — read it gently. 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.