Foul count

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Dad

My goal every game is to not miss a call, regardless of the foul count at any point. Whether I succeed or not is another matter entirely.

Too many times I've seen the team with 8 fouls get away with something they shouldn't have, or the team with 1 foul getting a phantom foul because, 'well it looked like there couldn't been xyz and no one will complain with the foul count.'

Personally, I'd just rather not worry about it and have any chance of me disadvantaging the team playing better defense, which I'd probably do even if I didn't want to admit it.

Eh, there's "pie in the sky" officiating and then there's the real world.

Same thing goes when a team's down 40 and there's a 50/50 call -- whether a foul or an out of bounds call. Likely puts a thumb on the scale. Some people would call that terrible - I just call it common sense.