NBA Referee Profile
Jake O'Donnell
Jake O'Donnell has worked 492 NBA games and the numbers tell a consistent story: he lets play run. His personal foul rate sits 2.4% below league average at 44.9 per game, and his free throw attempt average of 54.2 reflects the same lean, coming in 1.8% under the norm. When O'Donnell is on the floor, expect fewer stoppages and less time at the stripe — that has real implications for pace-sensitive totals. The more significant number for bettors is his home team win rate of 63.6%, which runs noticeably above the standard home-court baseline. That kind of tilt is not coincidence across a 492-game sample — it suggests O'Donnell's tendencies, whether in foul allocation or game management, have consistently broken toward the home side. Back home underdogs with more conviction when he's assigned, and think twice before laying big numbers on road favorites.
Career stats
Games officiated
492
Personal fouls / g
44.9
-2.4% vs league
Free throw attempts / g
54.2
-1.8% vs league
Combined points / g
210.3
+0.0% vs league
Home vs visitor
Home teams win 63.6% of games officiated by Jake. That's well above the league's ~57% home-court baseline — a signal his crews lean home when the game is close.