Regular Season vs Playoff Officiating
Officiating always seems to come under the microscope during the NBA Playoffs. There are some truisms spouted about in the media about how playoff basketball is a much more rough and tumble brand of basketball and further the Refs let them play more. Is this accurate?
Looking at Historical call rates (all types of calls fouls+infractions and violations) in theregular season vs the playoffs here is what we find;
Regular Season;
2003 48.8537
2004 47.511
2005 50.407
2006 51.2699
2007 51.467
2008 47.7211
2009 47.536
2010 47.290
Playoffs
2003 53.397
2004 51.670
2005 51.845
2006 53.842
2007 49.974
2008 50.011
2009 50.647
2010 51.467
2008-2010 Seasons have all featured more calls per game in the Playoffs vs the Regular Season.
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