Goals vs average
3.1
Near league average
47 games
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Frank Willenborg
Bundesliga referee stats and assignments
Bundesliga referee
Bundesliga official profile
Frank Willenborg
Referee · Bundesliga
Cards vs average
21.6
+0.1 vs league average
47 games
Close-game scoring
2.9
-0.2 vs league in tight games
29 close games
Team effects versus baseline
Win rate with this official compared with each team's overall win rate in the same seasons on file (2021-22 to 2025-26). A positive delta means the team wins more often with this official assigned; a negative delta means less often. Rows are sorted by the largest absolute gaps. Descriptive history only - not proof of cause. Minimum 8 shared games per row.
Historical environment
Scoring, whistle, and stability context from this official's verified sample versus league averages. Descriptive history only. Window: 2021-2026.
League comparison
Combined score
Official 3.1Baseline 3.2-0.1 vs leagueper game
Cards+0.4 vs league
Whistle detail
Whistle profile
Whistle volume, penalty disposition, and high-leverage game-state tendencies.
63
Near-average card-call profile
Stability
- Sample size
- 47 games
- Seasons on file
- 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
Win/loss and line history
General stats
- Games
- 47
- Avg combined goals
- 3.1
- -0.1 vs league avg
- Games over 2.9 goals
- 48.9%
- Combined beat 3.2 benchmark
- Flags per game
- 21.6
- +0.1 vs league avg
- Seasons
- 5 seasons
Pressure
Late-game whistle tendency versus earlier periods. Zero on the scale is the neutral / no-shift anchor for this official (same whistle rate late as earlier), not a league average and not a betting recommendation.
Tight-game proxy
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Officials with similar historical profiles
Similarity is descriptive and based on available historical metrics. It does not imply identical decision-making.
- 52.5% over · +0.9 whistlesimilar whistle tendency
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How to read this profile
Against the spread: whether the home team beat the sportsbook point spread (not just who won). A home line of −5.5 means the home team must win by 6+ to cover. and Did both teams’ combined score finish above (over) or below (under) the closing total set by sportsbooks before tip-off? tables use The spread and total sportsbooks posted near tip-off. ATS and O/U tables here use that number, not our fixed 225 benchmark. per game. ATS/O-U results are shown only where external closing-line data is available. Team penalty splits live on team pages. Tonight's assignment signals are on the EPL home page.
Scores, fouls, cards, and referee assignments from ESPN (1281 games, 154 with sportsbook totals). Referee coverage only where ESPN lists gameInfo.officials (2021-22 onward); games without referee names are excluded entirely. football-data.co.uk I1 CSVs lack a Referee column and are not used. Matrix: 402/572 ref×team pairs with 3+ games. 249 games skipped (no official listed).