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Showing Last 10 seasons (2016-10-25 – 2026-04-12)

Historical scoring and whistle tendencies across qualified officials. Descriptive associations with league baselines, not predictions. Sample: 109 officials (2016-10-25 – 2026-04-12).

Who moves the points?

The 97 referees with 30+ games, ranked by historical associations in their games.

Biggest scoring bump
Biniam Maru
+11.4 PTS
He averages 11.4 more combined points than the league baseline in his games.
Highest historical over-rate vs baseline
James Capers Jr.
68.3%
Line benchmark is 222 combined points; he clears it more often than peers in this sample.
Heaviest fouls ref
Mitchell Ervin
+1.9
He runs 1.9 fouls called above average per game.

48 of 97 referees associate with higher scoring. 40 associate with lower totals. Numbers describe past games, not predictions for tonight.

#	Official					Signals
1	Biniam Maru#80	43	+11.4	+0.4	65.1%	2 notable
2	James Capers Jr.#19	63	+10.1	-0.7	68.3%	2 notable
3	Brent Haskill#92	32	+8.1	+0.6	62.5%	2 notable
4	Matt Kallio#53	175	+6.8	-1.3	61.7%	2 notable
5	Che Flores#91	158	+5.8	-1.0	57.6%	2 notable
6	Danielle Scott#87	197	+5.7	-1.2	55.8%	1 notable
7	Intae Hwang#73	97	+5.6	-2.0	56.7%	2 notable
8	Sha'Rae Mitchell#98	123	+5.6	-1.1	53.7%	1 notable
9	Jenna Reneau#93	68	+5.3	-0.4	52.9%	1 notable
10	Matt Myers#43	337	+5.2	+0.2	55.2%	1 notable
11	Andy Nagy#83	328	+5.1	-0.6	54.0%	1 notable
12	Dannica Baroody#89	39	+5.1	-0.6	51.3%	1 notable
13	Robert Hussey#85	195	+4.8	-1.5	54.9%	1 notable
14	Simone Jelks#81	144	+4.8	-0.4	56.9%	2 notable
15	Suyash Mehta#82	258	+4.8	-0.3	55.8%	1 notable
16	J.D. Ralls#94	106	+4.5	+0.2	57.5%	2 notable
17	Pat O'Connell#90	64	+4.0	+0.7	50.0%	1 notable
18	Evan Scott#78	297	+3.7	-1.0	53.2%	1 notable
19	Brandon Schwab#86	242	+3.5	-1.4	51.7%	1 notable
20	Mousa Dagher#28	354	+3.4	+0.6	52.3%	1 notable
21	John Conley#79	214	+3.3	-0.2	48.6%	1 notable
22	Phenizee Ransom#70	377	+3.3	+0.1	51.5%	1 notable
23	Jenna Schroeder#84	282	+3.0	-1.4	50.4%	1 notable
24	Mitchell Ervin#27	572	+3.0	+1.9	50.2%	1 notable
25	Ashley Moyer-Gleich#13	280	+2.9	-0.7	48.9%	1 notable
26	Nate Green#41	296	+2.9	-1.0	49.7%	1 notable
27	Jason Goldenberg#35	413	+2.8	+0.5	50.6%	1 notable
28	John Butler#30	348	+2.5	-1.2	49.1%	1 notable
29	Natalie Sago#9	425	+2.4	-0.6	48.9%	1 notable
30	JB DeRosa#62	485	+2.3	-0.1	48.7%	1 notable
31	Jonathan Sterling#17	402	+2.0	+0.5	48.5%
32	Ray Acosta#54	509	+1.7	-0.4	49.1%
33	Scott Foster#48	563	+1.6	+1.2	48.1%
34	Tyler Ricks#95	90	+1.6	-1.3	50.0%
35	C.J. Washington#12	442	+1.4	+0.7	50.7%
36	Gediminas Petraitis#50	601	+1.2	+0.3	46.8%
37	Sean Wright#4	577	+1.0	+1.3	48.4%
38	Tyler Ford#39	599	+1.0	+1.0	47.2%
39	Jacyn Goble#68	1,096	+0.9	+0.5	47.1%
40	Zach Zarba#15	597	+0.9	-1.2	48.1%
41	Marc Davis#8	596	+0.8	-1.9	46.3%
42	Ben Taylor#46	534	+0.7	+1.1	43.6%	1 notable
43	David Guthrie#16	474	+0.7	+0.4	46.6%
44	James Williams#60	607	+0.7	-0.7	45.1%
45	Kevin Scott#24	572	+0.6	-0.4	44.4%
46	Tony Brothers#25	580	+0.6	+0.5	47.2%
47	Brett Nansel#44	430	+0.4	-0.2	45.1%
48	Karl Lane#77	605	+0.4	+0.3	46.1%
49	Ed Malloy#14	551	+0.3	-0.8	44.3%
50	Sean Corbin#33	491	+0.3	-0.4	46.4%
51	Tre Maddox#23	501	+0.3	+0.3	47.5%
52	Josh Tiven#58	624	+0.2	-0.7	47.3%
53	Kevin Cutler#34	566	+0.2	-1.0	47.0%
54	Dedric Taylor#21	541	+0.1	+0.5	47.7%
55	Scott Twardoski#52	542	+0.1	+0.3	45.0%
56	Mark Lindsay#29	556	+0.0	+0.1	43.7%	1 notable
57	Marat Kogut#32	564	-0.2	+1.0	44.3%
58	Nick Buchert#3	596	-0.5	+0.6	44.5%
59	Brent Barnaky#36	605	-0.7	-0.7	45.8%
60	Bill Kennedy#55	462	-0.8	-0.6	46.8%
61	Pat Fraher#26	578	-0.8	-0.2	44.6%
62	Derek Richardson#63	395	-1.0	-0.5	42.3%	1 notable
63	J.T. Orr#72	488	-1.0	+0.2	45.1%
64	Michael Smith#38	512	-1.0	+1.2	42.0%	1 notable
65	Brandon Adair#67	364	-1.2	-1.5	41.2%	1 notable
66	Curtis Blair#74	579	-1.2	-0.3	43.2%	1 notable
67	Derrick Collins#11	505	-1.4	-0.7	41.0%	1 notable
68	Dannica Mosher#89	102	-1.5	-1.8	43.1%	1 notable
69	Eric Dalen#37	491	-1.5	-1.4	41.1%	1 notable
70	Leon Wood#40	418	-1.5	+0.4	41.6%	1 notable
71	Rodney Mott#71	499	-1.5	+0.4	41.1%	1 notable
72	Aaron Smith#51	487	-1.6	-1.0	41.3%	1 notable
73	Justin Van Duyne#64	569	-1.9	-0.6	41.5%	1 notable
74	Brian Forte#45	606	-2.0	-0.5	40.4%	1 notable
75	Eric Lewis#42	427	-2.0	+1.9	42.2%	1 notable
76	Lauren Holtkamp#7	260	-2.4	-0.2	39.2%	2 notable
77	Courtney Kirkland#61	573	-2.5	-0.1	40.8%	2 notable
78	Scott Wall#31	374	-2.7	+0.2	40.9%	2 notable
79	James Capers#19	454	-2.9	+0.9	39.2%	2 notable
80	Matt Boland#18	448	-3.0	+0.6	39.1%	2 notable
81	Tom Washington#49	425	-3.4	-0.8	37.4%	2 notable
82	Haywoode Workman#66	208	-4.0	+1.0	35.6%	2 notable
83	Kane Fitzgerald#5	337	-4.2	+1.9	36.8%	2 notable
84	Mark Ayotte#56	281	-4.4	+1.7	37.7%	2 notable
85	Leroy Richardson#20	240	-4.5	+0.5	31.3%	2 notable
86	Jason Phillips#23	128	-5.0	+0.6	32.0%	2 notable
87	Tony Brown#6	274	-5.5	+1.8	36.1%	2 notable
88	Ken Mauer#41	275	-6.0	+0.3	32.4%	2 notable
89	Bennie Adams#47	190	-8.7	+1.1	28.9%	2 notable
90	Ron Garretson#10	175	-9.5	-0.8	27.4%	2 notable
91	Mike Callahan#24	178	-10.2	-0.8	25.8%	2 notable
92	Monty McCutchen#13	83	-10.5	+0.7	19.3%	2 notable
93	Bill Spooner#22	108	-11.0	-0.5	22.2%	2 notable
94	Steve Anderson#35	46	-11.3	+1.2	26.1%	2 notable
95	Dan Crawford#43	60	-12.4	-0.2	25.0%	2 notable
96	Gary Zielinski#59	119	-12.5	+1.1	26.1%	2 notable
97	Derrick Stafford#9	120	-13.6	-0.5	17.5%	2 notable

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