Elliot Bell
Over the last 10 Championship games Elliot Bell has officiated, the average is 4.30 cards a match — 7% above the league average of 4.01. That splits 4.2 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.7 to 2.6 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 19.4% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 1 awarded in 17 matches, 0.06 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 Elliot Bell 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 | Bell | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.47 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.11× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 19.8% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 22.6 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.06 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 1 in 17 | — |
| Red cards shown | 1 | — |
| Matches on record | 17 (12 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Elliot Bell took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southampton v Bristol City21 Apr | 2–2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Derby County v Stoke City6 Apr | 2–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Sheffield Wednesday v Watford10 Mar | 1–1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Southampton v Watford7 Feb | 1–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| West Brom v Norwich20 Jan | 0–5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Charlton Athletic v Oxford United20 Dec | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Derby County v Queens Park Rangers25 Oct | 1–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Wrexham v Oxford United22 Oct | 1–0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Elliot Bell give per game?
Elliot Bell averages 4.47 cards a game across 17 Championship matches — 11% above the league average of 4.01. On a Elliot Bell appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.11.
Is Elliot Bell a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Elliot Bell runs at 19.8% 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 Elliot Bell'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 Elliot Bell's card rate?
It rests on 17 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.