Weird football scores

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Well Geelong has certainly played a weird game tonight... in their first three quarters they've kicked 0.2, followed by 7.2 and 8.4!
All in all, they've kicked 15.6 of their 15.8 in the 2nd and 3rd.
 
Yesterday's WAFL game between the Subiaco Lions and Perth Demons was played in wet conditions at the Leederville Oval. In the first quarter the conditions were bad - drizzly, windy and cold - but not unplayable. The Demons stayed close to the Lions early, and scored their only goal of the quarter about midway through the first term. But when the heavy rain set in after quarter time, the Demons failed to goal at all for the rest of the game, managing just 0.3 for the remainder of the match and finishing with a score of 1.4-10, their lowest score since 1912.

The Lions handled the teeming downpours, waterlogged ground and mud far better, kicking 11.13-79 to crush the Demons by 69 points. Perth, ironically having their best season since their last finals appearance in 1997, saw their percentage tumble by over 13% in one game close to the midpoint of the season thanks to this drubbing by Subiaco.
 

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Last night's West Coast vs. Collingwood match had some pretty unusual scoring patterns, not that I'm complaining as Magpies fan.

The teams staged a shoot-out in the first quarter and were accurate, 6.3 to 6.1. And while it was obvious that on a cold and dewy night in Perth the teams were not going to give the 345 point aggregate of St. Kilda vs. Melbourne from 1978 a shake, it was a high scoring quarter in the modern era. The accurate Eagles continued their high scoring ways in the second term, leading the Magpies 10.4 to 8.3 at half time, and with two early goals in the third term they went to 12.4 and seemed like they might kick another big and accurate score like the one they demolished the lowly Dockers with in the wet a week earlier.

But for close to an hour in the remainder of the match, the Eagles with their dangerous attack scored just one rushed behind late in the final quarter. And the Magpies, very accurate like their hosts until the long break, kicked a wayward 3.9 in the second half but it was enough to give Collingwood a 1-point victory despite kicking less goals for the rest of the game than they had in the first quarter.
 
In last night's Port/Brisbane game midway through the 2nd quarter, the two teams were sitting on 3.1-19 to 10.2-62, a combined score of 13.3-81 (81.25% accuracy).
From that point onwards, Port Adelaide kicked 3.12 - including 0.9 in the last quarter - and Brisbane kicked 4.11, for a combined score of 7.23 (23.33% accuracy).
 
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Giants have 8.2 (50) at 27 minute mark of 1st quarter, don't score again until 27 minute mark of 2nd quarter.
 
ioppolo said:
Ended up being 15.6/16.8. Quite the quirk.
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If they had not kicked that last-quarter goal the Cats would have:
  1. equalled their own record for most points scored with two goalless quarters (when they kicked 13-20 with no goals in the first and third quarters against North Melbourne at Arden Street on 15 June, 1940)
  2. beaten by ten points the record for highest score with no goals in Q1 and Q4, by Hawthorn (13-10) against South Melbourne on 11 July, 1942
  3. beaten the record for most goals with two goalless quarters (I recall there is another team who scored 13 goals with two goalless quarters but I cannot locate it)
 
mianfei said:
If they had not kicked that last-quarter goal the Cats would have:
  1. equalled their own record for most points scored with two goalless quarters (when they kicked 13-20 with no goals in the first and third quarters against North Melbourne at Arden Street on 15 June, 1940)
  2. beaten by ten points the record for highest score with no goals in Q1 and Q4, by Hawthorn (13-10) against South Melbourne on 11 July, 1942
  3. beaten the record for most goals with two goalless quarters (I recall there is another team who scored 13 goals with two goalless quarters but I cannot locate it)
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Most goals with two goalless quarters (14):
1967 Rd. 15 - Footscray:
723405
2009 Rd. 21 - Port Adelaide:
723407

(13):
1905 Rd. 14 - Melbourne:
723409
1940 Rd. 8 - Geelong
723410
1942 Rd. 10 - Hawthorn:
723411
1945 Rd. 4 - Richmond:
723413
1964 Rd. 10 - Fitzroy:
723414
 

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Come to think about it Essendon-Bulldogs tonight had some really weird scoring patterns... Essendon kicks the first goal 20 seconds in, then doesn't kick another goal until about 5 minutes left in the last, during which time the Bulldogs piled on 21 (!!!) consecutive goals. Then the Bombers kicked the last three in a row inside the last 5 minutes or so of the match.
 
On a wet, windy and cold evening in Perth last night, the West Coast Eagles Reserves beat the East Perth Royals 4.11-35 to 1.5-11 in a WAFL match at the Leederville Oval.

East Perth was scoreless to half time and had just 0.1-1 to its name at three quarter time, before kicking 1.4 in the final term.
 
emuboy said:
On a wet, windy and cold evening in Perth last night, the West Coast Eagles Reserves beat the East Perth Royals 4.11-35 to 1.5-11 in a WAFL match at the Leederville Oval.

East Perth was scoreless to half time and had just 0.1-1 to its name at three quarter time, before kicking 1.4 in the final term.
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Along with Perth’s earlier 1-6 against Subiaco and North Melbourne’s 1-8 against Geelong earlier this month, this means:
  1. 2019 is the first season since 1919 (exactly 100 years ago!) when both the VFL and the WA(N)FL have seen scores of 0 or 1 goal
  2. all VFL clubs from before 1987 have scored 0 or 1 goal in a match at least once
    1. Adelaide, Brisbane, Port Adelaide, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney still have never scored 0 or 1 goal
      1. this remarkably corresponds exactly to those teams based in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland
      2. Sydney last scored 0 or 1 goal in Round 16, 1964 when they were still South Melbourne
    2. Collingwood last scored 0 or 1 goal in Round 6, 1900 – their lowest score since was of course 2-2 (14) in the infamous 1960 Grand Final
    3. Melbourne last scored 0 or 1 goal in Round 12, 1912
 
Mockcockpit said:
Round 2 - May 4/5 Eastern Districts Footbal League WA
League:
Narembeen 22.0 (132) d Bruce Rock 4.0 (24)
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Coverage of this league is so scarce that I can't even say for certain whether or not whoever put the results in forgot to add the points. The quarter by quarter scores weren't added either, and neither team's Facebook pages, though active, mentioned the game, let alone mentioning the anomaly.
 
Connor7395 said:
Coverage of this league is so scarce that I can't even say for certain whether or not whoever put the results in forgot to add the points. The quarter by quarter scores weren't added either, and neither team's Facebook pages, though active, mentioned the game, let alone mentioning the anomaly.
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Yes, info scarce alright. Cannot find any reference to Eastern Districts FL 2019 season in local newspapers via Newsbank.

Such a score in an Australian Football match appears very unlikely, and so in absence of any evidence for it,
I think we need to regard the 22.0 to 4.0 scoreline as unproven and therefore NOT to appear on any of our "lists."
 
the croucher said:
Yes, info scarce alright. Cannot find any reference to Eastern Districts FL 2019 season in local newspapers via Newsbank.

Such a score in an Australian Football match appears very unlikely, and so in absence of any evidence for it,
I think we need to regard the 22.0 to 4.0 scoreline as unproven and therefore NOT to appear on any of our "lists."
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I suspect it may be a case of "sloppy" administration and the scoreline should be recorded as
22.[behinds not known] to 4.[behinds not known]

All the other scores in that league are the "as expected" variety of quite accurate to inaccurate, but always a mix of goals and behinds,
so the scoreline of 22.0 to 4.0 is unbelievable.

Another explanation, but one unpleasant to ask, is the question "was there some type of manipulation of match events and scoring to produce such an outcome ?" Of course, such a situation would have led any competent organisation to declare the match "null and void."
 
Richmond began its Friday night match against North Melbourne at the MCG in Round 14 1991 with an atrocious display of inaccuracy, the Tigers having a score of 3.10-28 by quarter time. Richmond then astonishingly kicked 4.0 in the second term and 6.0 in the third quarter, meaning the Tigers had scored 10 goals without a miss since quarter time, taking their score at the final change to 13.10-88. And their final quarter of 6.4-40 was more than respectable.

Unfortunately for the Tigers, their score of 19.14-128 after such a poor start to the match counted for nothing in the end. North Melbourne, far more accurate in the opening term, jumped to an early break and were comfortably in front all night. The Kangaroos led at every change, and trounced the Tigers by 44-points in a high-scoring match, North winning 26.16-172 to 19.14-128.
 

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