Donald Robertson
Donald Robertson 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 Donald Robertson has officiated, the average is 4.90 cards a match — 22% above the league average of 4.02. That splits 4.6 yellow and 0.3 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.9 to 3.0 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 60% of those games (6 of 10), from a 20.9% 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 Donald Robertson 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 | Robertson | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.72 | 4.02 |
| vs league | 0.93× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.8% | 17.7% |
| Fouls / match | 20.9 | 22.7 |
| Red cards shown | 14 | — |
| Matches on record | 79 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Scottish Premiership games Donald Robertson took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic v Heart of Midlothian16 May | 3–1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| Hibernian v Heart of Midlothian26 Apr | 1–2 | 9 2 red | 7 | 2 | 25 |
| Falkirk FC v Rangers12 Apr | 3–6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 29 |
| Heart of Midlothian v Dundee FC21 Mar | 1–0 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | 23 |
| Livingston v St. Mirren28 Feb | 1–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 27 |
| Dundee United v Aberdeen24 Feb | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Rangers v Heart of Midlothian15 Feb | 4–2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 30 |
| Livingston v Kilmarnock10 Jan | 1–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 28 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Donald Robertson give per game?
Donald Robertson averages 3.72 cards a game across 79 Scottish Premiership matches — 7% below the league average of 4.02. On a Donald Robertson appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.93.
Is Donald Robertson a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Donald Robertson runs at 17.8% 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 Donald Robertson'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 Donald Robertson's card rate?
It rests on 79 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.