Has an AFL game ever ended 52-50?
It has. 52-50 has been a AFL final 2 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Melbourne on June 1, 1957; the latest was St Kilda beat Sydney on June 10, 2006.
That makes 52-50 the 2421st most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 53-50 has happened 4 times and 52-51 has happened 7 times. At one point the score disappeared for 49 years, between 1957 and 2006.