Robert Madley
Over the last 10 Championship games Robert Madley has officiated, the average is 3.50 cards a match — 13% below the league average of 4.01. That splits 3.2 yellow and 0.3 red a game — a red in 3 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.9 to 1.6 a game, in line with the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 17.8% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 63 matches, 0.21 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 Robert Madley 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 | Madley | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.33 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.08× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 20.4% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 21.2 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.21 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 63 | — |
| Red cards shown | 15 | — |
| Matches on record | 64 (4 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Robert Madley took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough v Millwall15 Sep | 2–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 15 |
| Stoke City v Charlton Athletic5 Sep | 4–0 | 5 1 red 1 pen | 4 | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| Watford v West Ham29 Aug | 1–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Middlesbrough v Lincoln City15 Aug | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Oxford United v Sheffield Wednesday25 Apr | 4–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Stoke City v Blackburn Rovers11 Apr | 1–1 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Portsmouth v Wrexham5 Nov | 0–0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Blackburn Rovers v Southampton25 Oct | 2–1 | 4 1 red | 3 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Robert Madley give per game?
Robert Madley averages 4.33 cards a game across 64 Championship matches — 8% above the league average of 4.01. On a Robert Madley appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.08.
Is Robert Madley a strict referee?
Yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Robert Madley runs at 20.4% 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 Robert Madley'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 Robert Madley's card rate?
It rests on 64 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.