Josh Smith
Over the last 10 Championship games Josh Smith has officiated, the average is 4.40 cards a match — 10% above the league average of 4.01. That splits 3.9 yellow and 0.5 red a game — a red in 4 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 3.0 to 1.4 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 50% of those games (5 of 10), from a 21.2% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 20 awarded in 102 matches, 0.20 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 Josh Smith 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 | Smith | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.09 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.02× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 18.8% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 21.8 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.20 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 20 in 102 | — |
| Red cards shown | 16 | — |
| Matches on record | 102 (27 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Josh Smith took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hull City v Norwich2 May | 2–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| Stoke City v Millwall21 Apr | 1–3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Preston North End v West Brom18 Apr | 0–2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Southampton v Blackburn Rovers14 Apr | 3–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Portsmouth v Oxford United6 Apr | 2–2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| Watford v Leicester21 Mar | 0–0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| West Brom v Hull City14 Mar | 3–0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21 |
| Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough8 Mar | 0–4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Josh Smith give per game?
Josh Smith averages 4.09 cards a game across 102 Championship matches — roughly above the league average of 4.01. On a Josh Smith appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.02.
Is Josh Smith a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Josh Smith runs at 18.8% 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 Josh Smith'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 Josh Smith's card rate?
It rests on 102 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.