Foul count

[Dad]

Originally Posted by Rich

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.

I'm not seeing how the two correlate. I agree it is common sense and wouldn't call it terrible. In a blowout one team has, for the most part, no chance of winning.

The scenarios I usually see an obvious difference in fouls are in a close game where one team is vastly more aggressive. Personally, if I were to think about the foul count I may give the aggressive team an advantage by not calling a foul on them or calling a foul on the other team I normally wouldn't.