Leigh Doughty
Leigh Doughty has not taken charge of a Championship match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Championship games Leigh Doughty has officiated, the average is 5.40 cards a match — 35% above the league average of 4.01. That's 5.4 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The home side sees more cards — 2.2 to 3.2 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 60% of those games (6 of 10), from a 26.2% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 72 matches, 0.18 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 Leigh Doughty 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 | Doughty | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.54 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.13× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 21.5% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 21.1 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.18 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 72 | — |
| Red cards shown | 9 | — |
| Matches on record | 72 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Leigh Doughty took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Rovers v Leicester2 May | 0–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City21 Apr | 1–2 | 4 1 pen | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| Sheffield Wednesday v Leicester6 Apr | 1–1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Stoke City v Watford14 Mar | 3–1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Derby County v Blackburn Rovers28 Feb | 3–1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Wrexham v Ipswich21 Feb | 5–3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Charlton Athletic v Portsmouth17 Feb | 1–3 | 10 1 pen | 10 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| Hull City v Watford3 Feb | 0–0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Leigh Doughty give per game?
Leigh Doughty averages 4.54 cards a game across 72 Championship matches — 13% above the league average of 4.01. On a Leigh Doughty appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.13.
Is Leigh Doughty a strict referee?
Yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Leigh Doughty runs at 21.5% 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 Leigh Doughty'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 Leigh Doughty's card rate?
It rests on 72 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.