David Webb
Over the last 10 Championship games David Webb has officiated, the average is 3.20 cards a match — 20% below the league average of 4.01. That's 3.2 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.9 to 1.3 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 14.6% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 18 awarded in 116 matches, 0.16 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 David Webb 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 | Webb | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.19 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.80× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 15.4% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 20.7 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 18 in 116 | — |
| Red cards shown | 12 | — |
| Matches on record | 117 (3 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games David Webb took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham City v Middlesbrough19 Sep | 2–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 22 |
| Bolton Wanderers v West Ham8 Sep | 2–3 | 3 1 pen | 3 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| Derby County v Swansea City29 Aug | 0–3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Stoke City v Portsmouth25 Apr | 1–3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Middlesbrough v Sheffield Wednesday22 Apr | 1–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Birmingham City v Wrexham12 Apr | 2–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Hull City v Coventry City6 Apr | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Oxford United v Blackburn Rovers11 Mar | 1–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does David Webb give per game?
David Webb averages 3.19 cards a game across 117 Championship matches — 20% below the league average of 4.01. On a David Webb appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.80.
Is David Webb a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and David Webb runs at 15.4% against a league average of 18.3%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does David Webb'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 Webb's card rate?
It rests on 117 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.