Benoît Bastien
Over the last 10 Ligue 1 games Benoît Bastien has officiated, the average is 3.30 cards a match — 15% below the league average of 3.89. That's 3.3 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.4 to 1.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 14.0% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 29 awarded in 76 matches, 0.38 a game against a league average of 0.36. 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 Benoît Bastien turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Ligue 1 season on record.
| Measure | Bastien | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.99 | 3.89 |
| vs league | 1.03× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.0% | 15.8% |
| Fouls / match | 24.9 | 24.6 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.38 | 0.36 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 29 in 76 | — |
| Red cards shown | 12 | — |
| Matches on record | 76 (20 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Ligue 1 games Benoît Bastien took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Étienne v Nice26 May | 0–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| RC Strasbourg v AS Monaco17 May | 5–4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| RC Lens v Paris Saint-Germain13 May | 0–2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Le Havre v Olympique de Marseille10 May | 0–1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 42 |
| Stade Rennais v Nantes26 Apr | 2–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
| Olympique Lyonnais v Lorient12 Apr | 2–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Olympique de Marseille v Lille22 Mar | 1–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Stade Brestois v Le Havre8 Mar | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 32 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Benoît Bastien give per game?
Benoît Bastien averages 3.99 cards a game across 76 Ligue 1 matches — 3% above the league average of 3.89. On a Benoît Bastien appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.03.
Is Benoît Bastien a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Benoît Bastien runs at 16.0% against a league average of 15.8%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Benoît Bastien'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 Benoît Bastien's card rate?
It rests on 76 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.