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.

– drenvuk, 20 February 2019

Is this true?

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

README.md

NBA Foul Bias Analysis