Sam Allison
Over the last 10 Championship games Sam Allison has officiated, the average is 3.40 cards a match — 15% below the league average of 4.01. That splits 3.3 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.1 to 1.3 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 10% of those games (1 of 10), from a 14.4% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come less often than most: 5 awarded in 64 matches, 0.08 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 Sam Allison 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 | Allison | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.72 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.93× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.8% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 22.1 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.08 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 5 in 64 | — |
| Red cards shown | 4 | — |
| Matches on record | 65 (4 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Sam Allison 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 City12 Sep | 4–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Cardiff City v Stoke City8 Sep | 1–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Portsmouth v Derby County1 Sep | 0–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Millwall v Norwich22 Aug | 3–0 | 4 1 red | 3 | 1 | — | 22 |
| Coventry City v Wrexham26 Apr | 3–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Derby County v Oxford United18 Apr | 1–0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Leicester v Swansea City11 Apr | 0–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Millwall v Norwich6 Apr | 1–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Sam Allison give per game?
Sam Allison averages 3.72 cards a game across 65 Championship matches — 7% below the league average of 4.01. On a Sam Allison appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.93.
Is Sam Allison a strict referee?
No — slightly more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Sam Allison runs at 16.8% 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 Sam Allison'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 Sam Allison's card rate?
It rests on 65 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.