Ruddy Buquet
Over the last 10 Ligue 1 games Ruddy Buquet has officiated, the average is 3.00 cards a match — 22% below the league average of 3.87. That splits 2.9 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.6 to 1.4 a game, in line with the league's 0.2 gap. 5+ cards landed in 10% of those games (1 of 10), from a 13.7% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 18 awarded in 58 matches, 0.31 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 Ruddy Buquet 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 | Buquet | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.85 | 3.87 |
| vs league | 0.99× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.1% | 15.8% |
| Fouls / match | 24.0 | 24.5 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.31 | 0.36 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 18 in 58 | — |
| Red cards shown | 22 | — |
| Matches on record | 59 (3 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Ligue 1 games Ruddy Buquet took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Havre v Angers12 Sep | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Olympique Lyonnais v Auxerre4 Sep | 3–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Olympique de Marseille v RC Strasbourg21 Aug | 4–0 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | — | 18 |
| Nice v Saint-Étienne29 May | 4–1 | 2 1 pen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Olympique de Marseille v Stade Rennais17 May | 3–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Metz v AS Monaco2 May | 1–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Olympique Lyonnais v Auxerre25 Apr | 3–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| RC Strasbourg v Stade Rennais19 Apr | 0–3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Ruddy Buquet give per game?
Ruddy Buquet averages 3.85 cards a game across 59 Ligue 1 matches — roughly below the league average of 3.87. On a Ruddy Buquet appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.99.
Is Ruddy Buquet a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Ruddy Buquet runs at 16.1% 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 Ruddy Buquet'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 Ruddy Buquet's card rate?
It rests on 59 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.