Has an AFL game ever ended 98-74?
It has. 98-74 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat St Kilda on July 5, 1930; the latest was Essendon beat Geelong on May 4, 1974.
That makes 98-74 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 99-74 has happened 3 times and 98-75 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 41 years, between 1933 and 1974.