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RefEdge — Referee Tendencies

How each WNBA referee's games tend to play out — average total scoring, team fouls called, home win rate. Plus today's crew assignment for every scheduled game (refs typically lock several hours before tipoff). Last updated: May 13, 2026, 12:03 PM ET.

Sport WNBA MLB · See /mlb/umpires/
Early-season notice. No referee has called 10+ games yet in 2026; per-ref deltas are directional and stabilize as the season fills in. Sample sizes per ref are surfaced as a "Sample" pill on each row.
What this is. A research surface for ref-driven scoring context. Toggle the sort column — "Total vs Lg Avg" surfaces refs whose games average more or fewer points than the league baseline; "Team fouls" tracks officiating tightness; "Home WR" tracks home-team performance under each crew. Today's crew assignments sit at the top so you can match a specific game to its officiating profile. Not a betting recommendation; not picks.

Today's Assignments

4 games on the slate
Seattle Storm @ Toronto TempoScheduled
Officials: TBD — ESPN typically posts the crew a few hours before tipoff
Las Vegas Aces @ Connecticut SunScheduled
Officials: TBD — ESPN typically posts the crew a few hours before tipoff
Chicago Sky @ Golden State ValkyriesScheduled
Officials: TBD — ESPN typically posts the crew a few hours before tipoff
Indiana Fever @ Los Angeles SparksScheduled
Officials: TBD — ESPN typically posts the crew a few hours before tipoff
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League — 31 refs

League avg total: 169.5 · avg team fouls: 23.5
RefereeGamesAvg totalvs Lg AvgTeam foulsHome WRSample
Ryan Johnson1194.0+24.518.5100%low
Randy Richardson3193.3+23.922.8100%low
Kelly Broomfield2186.0+16.528.850%low
Kevin Fahy4182.5+13.026.450%low
Ken Jones3182.0+12.526.30%low
Tyler Mirkovich4180.8+11.323.925%low
Catherine Chang3178.3+8.926.567%low
Tiara Cruse3175.3+5.921.00%low
Amy Bonner4174.8+5.321.950%low
RJ Johnson3174.7+5.224.067%low
Tim Greene3174.0+4.522.80%low
Isaac Barnett2173.5+4.025.80%low
Leah Lanie5172.4+2.919.640%medium
Blanca Burns3172.3+2.924.50%low
Sarah Williams4172.3+2.821.325%low
Roy Gulbeyan3172.0+2.523.067%low
Charles Watson4169.5+0.027.150%low
Gerda Gatling3169.0-0.522.367%low
Marcy Williams2168.5-1.023.30%low
Jason Alabanza4165.5-4.025.8100%low
Angelica Suffren3165.0-4.523.30%low
Josh Reed3164.0-5.524.567%low
Kelsey Reynolds3163.7-5.823.733%low
Maj Forsberg3163.0-6.517.567%low
Toni Patillo3160.0-9.525.533%low
Ryan Sassano4157.8-11.721.950%low
Agon Abazi3157.0-12.520.533%low
Genesis Perrymond3156.7-12.821.70%low
Gina Cross3153.3-16.124.067%low
Fatou Cissoko-Stephens2152.0-17.526.00%low
Clare Aubry4150.8-18.726.125%low
31 referees across 32 cached games. Tracking from 2026-04-13.
How this works

Source data is ESPN's per-game summary endpoint — the same one used to build WNBA player game logs. Each finished WNBA game's three officials are extracted, then aggregated across the season. Finished games are cached so they're fetched at most once; today's scheduled games are re-fetched each pipeline cycle in case ESPN posts the crew between checks.

  • Avg total — mean of home+away final scores across all games this ref worked. League avg shown in the header for context.
  • vs Lg Avg — ref-specific average minus league pool average. Color cues: amber when ≥ +6, teal when ≤ −6, muted in the middle (no signal yet).
  • Team fouls — average personal fouls called per team per game. Pulled from boxscore.players[i].statistics[0] by summing the PF column across all athletes who played.
  • Home WR — share of this ref's games where the home team won.
  • Sample pill — High (10+ games), Medium (5–9), Low (1–4), Insufficient (0). Early-season banner fires when no ref hits High.

Refreshes each top-of-hour WNBA pipeline cycle. Source feed: public/wnba/referees.json, built by scripts/wnba/build_wnba_referees.py. Game cache at public/wnba/referee_game_cache.json ensures finished games are fetched at most once.