In the NBA, are fouls more likely to be called on a team leading by a significant margin?

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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.

Is this true?

This project uses play by play data from Eight Thirty Four to answer this question.