2021 season ref stats

Here are the 2021 season ref stats for our games. I’ve included the usual things I do each year. These figures include all domestic fixtures but not the ACL games. If it was a cup game and we won or lost on penalties it counts as a draw when it comes to points per game in these stats. No red cards for us in any competition this year means that the cards stats look a bit better than last year. But you’d also expect this given that we were named as the fair play team of the season. This year as a bonus I’ve added total stats at the bottom. Not sure if this is at all useful but the averages are at least slightly interesting and we got a pretty satisfying average amount of points and cards this year. 

Out of the 19 different refs we had, we got a perfect points record with quite a few. As some of them were only in charge of a single game, there’s probably not much to draw from their info. I’d say that of the refs who were in charge of our games on numerous occasions, we’ve probably got to say we like Araki (who only gave us one yellow in four games so probably is our ref of the year), Iida and Nishimura (!!!!) the most when it comes to points. The first two saw us take maximum points from four and three games respectively and from Nishimura’s five games we got a respectable 2.6 point average. Of the refs who reffed multiple games, the only ones in whose games we dropped to less than two points a game were Kimura, Imamura and Iemoto, who we got our worst points return from. This proves that for once I was right when I said he’s a nightmare ref for us… maybe. When it comes to cards Iemoto is the worst for us again. He gave almost a quarter of our total season yellows (5 out of 21) in only five games. Nishimura was close behind with four, but given that we did better in the games he reffed, I’d say that Iemoto is definitively the worst ref for us. So maybe his retirement is good news. Obviously there might be some kind of bias in the figures given that the big-name and supposedly better refs might be given the bigger and maybe tougher games. But I won’t let accuracy get in the way of having one final moan about Iemoto. I'm sure he's pleased he's retired! I guess we should be quite happy about it too.

G - Games refereed
W - Wins
D - Draws
L - Losses
Y - Yellow Cards
R - Red Cards
AVC - Average number of cards per game (yellow = 1, red = 3)
AVP - Average points for us per game

 

ARAKI
G 4 W 4 D 0 L 0 Y 1 R 0 
AVC 0.25 AVP 3

FUKUSHIMA
G 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 3

IEMOTO
G 5 W 1 D 4 L 0 Y 5 R 0
AVC 1 AVP 1.4

IIDA
G 3 W 3 D 0 L 0 Y 2 R 0
AVC 0.66 AVP 3

IKEUCHI
G 2 W 1 D 1 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.5 AVP 2

IMAMURA
G 4 W 2 D 1 L 1 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 1.75

KASAHARA
G 2 W 1 D 1 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.5 AVP 2

KIMURA
G 4 W 2 D 1 L 1 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.25 AVP 1.75

MATSUO
G 2 W 1 D 1 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.5 AVP 2

MURAKAMI
G 2 W 1 D 1 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.5 AVP 2

NISHIMURA
G 5 W 4 D 1 L 0 Y 4 R 0
AVC 0.8 AVP 2.6

OKABE
G 2 W 2 D 0 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 3

SATO
G 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 3

SENDACHI
G 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 1

SHIMIZU
G 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 1 AVP 1

TAKAYAMA
G 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 3

TANIMOTO
G 2 W 2 D 0 L 0 Y 1 R 0
AVC 0.5 AVP 3

UEDA
G 2 W 2 D 0 L 0 Y 0 R 0
AVC 0 AVP 3

YAMAMOTO
G 2 W 2 D 0 L 0 Y 2 R 0
AVC 1 AVP 3  

TOTALS
G 46 W 31 D 13 L 2 Y 21 R 0
AVC 0.45 AVP 2.3