Has an AFL game ever ended 98-49?
It has. 98-49 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy beat St Kilda on July 17, 1915; the latest was Hawthorn beat Carlton on July 20, 1996.
That makes 98-49 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 99-49 has happened never and 98-50 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 79 years, between 1917 and 1996.