Ruddy Buquet
Over the last 10 Ligue 1 games Ruddy Buquet has officiated, the average is 2.90 cards a match — 25% below the league average of 3.89. That's 2.9 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.6 to 1.3 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 0% of those games (0 of 10), from a 13.1% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 18 awarded in 56 matches, 0.32 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 | 3.86 | 3.89 |
| vs league | 0.99× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.0% | 15.8% |
| Fouls / match | 24.1 | 24.6 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.32 | 0.36 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 18 in 56 | — |
| Red cards shown | 21 | — |
| Matches on record | 56 (18 in 25/26) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nice v Saint-Étienne29 May | 4–1 | 2 | 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 |
| Angers v Olympique Lyonnais5 Apr | 0–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Paris Saint-Germain v AS Monaco6 Mar | 1–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Lorient v Auxerre1 Mar | 2–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Ruddy Buquet give per game?
Ruddy Buquet averages 3.86 cards a game across 56 Ligue 1 matches — roughly below the league average of 3.89. 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 16.0% 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 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 56 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.