At times I feel like there are too many fouls and free throws. But when I really think about specific games, while there are those where there are a lot of fouls and free throw attemptss, there are also games when there are few fouls and few free throws and a greater number of games somewhere in the middle.
I checked the NCAA stats for all 353 teams in 2019 and here's what I found for what occurred in real life:
FT attempts/game: The range was from 12.3/game to 26.4/game with median being 18.9/game
Fouls/game: The range was from 12.4/game to 23.3/game with median being 17.5/game
Since I just finished a complete season with my most current DDSCB2020 association, I went to the League Leaders screen and looked at the complete list of teams and found the following to be the case:
FT attempts/game a range from 12.2/game to 27.3/game with median being 18.7/game (So VERY similar to what occurred in real life this past season)
Fouls/game: The team stats don't provide this. But given the FTA/game were close to real life, my expectation was that fouls/game was also similar between real life and DDSCB. To check further, I went to my team, totaled up fouls and divided by the number of games my team played and found that my team made 17.5 fouls/game. I then randomly selected 9 other teams (some low prestige, some mid majors, and some high prestige programs) and here's what I found:
Team #2: 18.0 fouls/game
Team #3: 10.3 fouls/game
Team #4: 12.1 fouls/game
Team #5: 11.4 fouls/game
Team #6: 15.2 fouls/game
Team #7: 18.5 fouls/game
Team #8: 17.1 fouls/game
Team #9: 17.3 fouls/game
Team 10: 16.1 fouls/game
So pretty much within the range of real life.
I think that what happens is that we tend to be bothered by and remember the games in which there are a lot of fouls and free throw attempts....and NOT remember what occurred related to fouls/free throws in the games where there are few or an average amount of fouls and free throw attempts.
Over the years, as a beta-tester, I've analyzed stats and found DDSCB to be extremely close to real life for most all categories (including fouls and free throw attempts).
But it still pisses me off when my team plays a game in which they foul too much and give away a lot of points at the FT line.