Sam Allison
Over the last 10 Championship games Sam Allison has officiated, the average is 3.10 cards a match — 23% below the league average of 4.01. That's 3.1 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.8 to 1.3 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 13.3% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come less often than most: 5 awarded in 61 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 | 3.77 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.94× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.1% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 22.0 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.08 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 5 in 61 | — |
| Red cards shown | 3 | — |
| Matches on record | 61 (18 in 25/26) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Sheffield United v Wrexham21 Mar | 1–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Portsmouth v Hull City28 Feb | 0–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| West Brom v Charlton Athletic24 Feb | 1–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Oxford United v Norwich10 Feb | 0–3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Sam Allison give per game?
Sam Allison averages 3.77 cards a game across 61 Championship matches — 6% below the league average of 4.01. On a Sam Allison appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.94.
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 17.1% 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 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 61 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.