initial project description

.gitignore

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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
+.Ruserdata
+
+# ignore raw CSV files.
+# for data see: https://eightthirtyfour.com/data
+data/*.csv

README.md

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+# NBA Foul Bias Analysis
+
+>  If you've watched any NBA in the past decade you can see a trend of calling fouls against teams that are winning too heavily against favorites. It's not hard. 
+
+- [drenvuk](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212814), 20 February 2019
+
+Is this true?
+
+This project uses play by play data from [Eight Thirty Four](https://eightthirtyfour.com/data) to answer this question.
+

data/README.md

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+Data are available in csv format from [Eight Thirty Four](https://eightthirtyfour.com/data), provided by Katherine Evans and Udam Saini.

foul_bias.Rproj

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