Tom Nield
Over the last 10 Championship games Tom Nield has officiated, the average is 3.40 cards a match — 15% below the league average of 4.01. That's 3.4 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.2 to 1.2 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 14.9% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 9 awarded in 61 matches, 0.15 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 Tom Nield 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 | Nield | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.87 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.97× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.7% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 23.3 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.15 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 9 in 61 | — |
| Red cards shown | 3 | — |
| Matches on record | 63 (4 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Tom Nield took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwich v Bolton Wanderers20 Sep | 3–4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 23 |
| Charlton Athletic v Queens Park Rangers9 Sep | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Wolves v Stoke City29 Aug | 4–1 | 5 1 pen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 28 |
| Swansea City v Sheffield United22 Aug | 0–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | — | 24 |
| Derby County v Sheffield United2 May | 1–2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Charlton Athletic v Hull City25 Apr | 2–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Millwall v Queens Park Rangers18 Apr | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Coventry City v Derby County3 Apr | 3–2 | 2 1 pen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Tom Nield give per game?
Tom Nield averages 3.87 cards a game across 63 Championship matches — 3% below the league average of 4.01. On a Tom Nield appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.97.
Is Tom Nield 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 Tom Nield runs at 16.7% 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 Tom Nield'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 Tom Nield's card rate?
It rests on 63 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.