Has an AFL game ever ended 117-98?
It has. 117-98 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Fitzroy on April 3, 1976; the latest was Carlton beat GWS on April 20, 2024.
That makes 117-98 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 118-98 has happened 2 times and 117-99 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 26 years, between 1976 and 2002.