# 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.
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> – [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.