Has an AFL game ever ended 117-101?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 117-101 2 times. It first happened on September 1, 1973, when Fitzroy beat Geelong, and most recently on June 3, 2017, when GWS beat Essendon.
That makes 117-101 the 2421st most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 118-101 has happened never and 117-102 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 44 years, between 1973 and 2017.