How each referee shapes the fantasy environment. A whistle-happy ref means more penalties (and six-agains), a stricter ref sends more players to the sin bin, and a high-scoring environment lifts attacking output. Averaged per match across completed games.
| Referee | Games | Penalties / game |
Ruck infr. six-agains / game |
Sin bins / game |
Send-offs / game |
Points / game |
Fantasy / player |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Klein | 351 | 11.8 | 2.7 | 0.37 | 0.02 | 43.5 | 36.4 |
| Gerard Sutton | 350 | 11.8 | 2.3 | 0.45 | 0.01 | 42.2 | 35.9 |
| Grant Atkins | 295 | 12.7 | 2.7 | 0.47 | 0.02 | 43.6 | 35.5 |
| Ben Cummins | 254 | 11.6 | 1.2 | 0.34 | 0.02 | 39.9 | 35.5 |
| Adam Gee | 238 | 11.3 | 4.1 | 0.44 | 0.01 | 44.4 | 36.3 |
| Matt Cecchin | 222 | 12.2 | 1.0 | 0.21 | 0.0 | 41.0 | 35.1 |
| Peter Gough | 144 | 11.5 | 4.0 | 0.39 | 0.03 | 45.9 | 36.7 |
| Henry Perenara | 143 | 13.8 | 1.0 | 0.26 | 0.01 | 41.5 | 34.2 |
| Todd Smith | 119 | 10.3 | 5.3 | 0.49 | 0.03 | 46.9 | 37.5 |
| Gavin Badger | 109 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | 40.7 | 33.6 |
| Chris Sutton | 102 | 11.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.01 | 42.2 | 36.3 |
| Jared Maxwell | 94 | 12.9 | 0.0 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 39.4 | 34.0 |
| Chris Butler | 81 | 11.8 | 3.8 | 0.56 | 0.04 | 45.8 | 36.9 |
| Liam Kennedy | 63 | 10.8 | 3.5 | 0.52 | 0.02 | 46.5 | 36.8 |
| Wyatt Raymond | 60 | 9.5 | 4.8 | 0.47 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 37.9 |
| Ziggy Przeklasa-Adamski | 33 | 10.6 | 2.4 | 0.55 | 0.03 | 43.7 | 36.1 |
| Dave Munro | 32 | 13.8 | 0.4 | 0.19 | 0.0 | 47.2 | 32.9 |
| Belinda Sharpe | 29 | 11.3 | 1.7 | 0.38 | 0.0 | 45.4 | 33.3 |
| Gavin Reynolds | 29 | 14.0 | 0.0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | 43.4 | 32.9 |
| Alan Shortall | 24 | 13.0 | 0.0 | 0.17 | 0.04 | 39.9 | 34.1 |
| Kasey Badger | 15 | 13.1 | 1.7 | 0.33 | 0.0 | 42.7 | 32.6 |
| Jon Stone | 11 | 14.5 | 0.0 | 0.64 | 0.0 | 42.0 | 35.2 |
| Matt Noyen | 7 | 12.3 | 2.4 | 0.43 | 0.0 | 39.7 | 36.8 |
| Karra-Lee Nolan | 1 | 15.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 54.0 | 30.6 |
| League average | 12.24 | 1.97 | 0.38 | 0.01 | 43.81 | 35.13 |
Red = above the league average for penalties, ruck infringements, sin bins or send-offs (a tighter whistle); green = a higher-scoring environment than average. "Ruck infr." counts ruck-infringement calls, which since 2020 produce six-again set restarts — the NRL feed has no separate six-again stat, and it's only meaningful from 2020 on. Sin bins and send-offs are rare, so those columns run low and wobble on small samples — raise the minimum games to focus on established referees.