Has an AFL game ever ended 101-99?
It has. 101-99 has been a AFL final 3 times in 17,053 games. The first was Essendon beat Fitzroy on June 3, 1972; the latest was Sydney beat Essendon on July 29, 2023.
That makes 101-99 the 1599th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 102-99 has happened 4 times and 101-100 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 30 years, between 1972 and 2002.