Irvine, Grant
Irvine, Grant 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 Irvine, Grant has officiated, the average is 3.40 cards a match — 15% below the league average of 4.02. That splits 3.2 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.5 to 1.9 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 15.2% 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 Irvine, Grant 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 | Grant | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.29 | 4.02 |
| vs league | 0.82× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 15.0% | 17.7% |
| Fouls / match | 21.9 | 22.7 |
| Red cards shown | 7 | — |
| Matches on record | 31 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Scottish Premiership games Irvine, Grant took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmarnock v St. Mirren11 Feb | 4–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 26 |
| Livingston v Dundee United30 Dec | 1–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| Dundee FC v Aberdeen6 Dec | 1–3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| Falkirk FC v Livingston8 Nov | 1–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 33 |
| Motherwell v St. Mirren15 Mar | 2–2 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 25 |
| Dundee FC v Aberdeen15 Feb | 1–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16 |
| Celtic v St. Mirren5 Jan | 3–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| Motherwell v Hibernian30 Nov | 0–3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Irvine, Grant give per game?
Irvine, Grant averages 3.29 cards a game across 31 Scottish Premiership matches — 18% below the league average of 4.02. On an Irvine, Grant appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.82.
Is Irvine, Grant a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Irvine, Grant runs at 15.0% 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 Irvine, Grant'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 Irvine, Grant's card rate?
It rests on 31 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.