Dan McFarlane
Dan McFarlane has not taken charge of a Scottish Premiership match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Scottish Premiership games Dan McFarlane has officiated, the average is 4.60 cards a match — 14% above the league average of 4.02. That splits 4.1 yellow and 0.5 red a game — a red in 5 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.7 to 1.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 50% of those games (5 of 10), from a 16.3% foul-to-booking rate. 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 Dan McFarlane turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Scottish Premiership season on record.
| Measure | McFarlane | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.58 | 4.02 |
| vs league | 1.14× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.5% | 17.7% |
| Fouls / match | 27.8 | 22.7 |
| Red cards shown | 5 | — |
| Matches on record | 12 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Scottish Premiership games Dan McFarlane took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hibernian v Aberdeen30 Dec | 2–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 22 |
| Livingston v Dundee FC13 Dec | 2–2 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | 36 |
| Hibernian v Dundee United13 Sep | 3–3 | 7 1 red | 6 | 1 | 31 |
| Motherwell v Kilmarnock30 Aug | 2–2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 35 |
| Kilmarnock v Heart of Midlothian18 May | 0–1 | 3 1 red | 2 | 1 | 27 |
| Dundee United v St. Johnstone12 Apr | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 29 |
| St. Johnstone v Ross County26 Feb | 1–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 23 |
| St. Mirren v St. Johnstone1 Feb | 0–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 26 |
● a red card in that match
Dan McFarlane has officiated only 12 matches on our record — a thin sample. The model shrinks a thin referee tendency toward the league average and discounts its confidence until the evidence builds, so read the numbers above gently.
Frequently asked
How many cards does Dan McFarlane give per game?
Dan McFarlane averages 4.58 cards a game across 12 Scottish Premiership matches — 14% above the league average of 4.02. That's a raw rate from only 12 matches, so the model shrinks it toward the league average rather than trusting it outright.
Is Dan McFarlane 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 Dan McFarlane runs at 16.5% against a league average of 17.7%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Dan McFarlane'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 Dan McFarlane's card rate?
It rests on 12 career matches, still a thin sample — read it gently. 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.