Nick Walsh
Over the last 10 Scottish Premiership games Nick Walsh has officiated, the average is 3.60 cards a match — 10% below the league average of 4.02. That splits 3.4 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.0 to 1.6 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 14.7% 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 Nick Walsh 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 | Walsh | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.28 | 4.02 |
| vs league | 1.06× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.5% | 17.7% |
| Fouls / match | 24.5 | 22.7 |
| Red cards shown | 17 | — |
| Matches on record | 88 (1 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Scottish Premiership games Nick Walsh took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee United v Rangers31 Jul | 1–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 30 |
| Celtic v Rangers10 May | 3–1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 38 |
| St. Mirren v Aberdeen4 Apr | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
| Dundee United v Celtic22 Mar | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| Motherwell v Dundee United28 Feb | 2–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
| Dundee FC v Livingston14 Feb | 2–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 20 |
| Heart of Midlothian v Hibernian10 Feb | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 28 |
| St. Mirren v Dundee FC31 Jan | 0–0 | 1 1 red | 0 | 1 | 22 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Nick Walsh give per game?
Nick Walsh averages 4.28 cards a game across 88 Scottish Premiership matches — 6% above the league average of 4.02. On a Nick Walsh appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.06.
Is Nick Walsh a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Nick Walsh runs at 17.5% 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 Nick Walsh'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 Nick Walsh's card rate?
It rests on 88 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.