What is mathematically the most unlikely final score in a football game?

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6-4 (OT) ?

eddothebook · Answer

6-4 (OT) ?

WingerWins · Answer

a team scoring 4 would be wild

StoneColdNinja · Answer

4 safeties throughout the whole game and a safety to win in OT?  how bout scoreless until a safety in OT? 2-0 win lol

WingerWins · Answer

I bet a team has never scored 8 points in a game

cpgraves · Answer

who cares??

WingerWins · Answer

cp get back in the grave grumpy ass

nooob · Answer

lol it is 1 to anything, idiots. since you can&#x27;t score 1 pt?

kn0wn · Answer

thats a TD and a two point conversion. not that hard lol

Uconn34 · Answer

That&#39;s a game I want to watch 3x ...check that 6x

nuggins · Answer

I&#x27;ll take that bet for a zillion dollars...happened just last year actually...pay up!!

pcollins · Answer

33-4  No 33s  no 4s yet this year

TomE · Answer

LOLA TIE SCORE!Very unlikely.

ManassaMauler · Answer

4-2?

switchwalk · Answer

Has to be 4-4(OT) no?two safeties each, no scoring in overtimeleast amount of points without a TD (6) and FG are too "easy" compared to a safety.Finishes in a Tie.

switchwalk · Answer

meant to add: 4 safeties in a game has to be mathematically less likely than 2 (2-2 final)

dmay · Answer

2389234792308 - 12983712789012803&#xD;&#xA;It&#x27;s very unlikely

ratherBgambling · Answer

wtf is wrong with you people?

switchwalk · Answer

So we&#x27;ll march day and night by the being cooling towerthey have the plant, but we have the powerrrrrrrrrrr

Bumblebee · Answer

1 pt is right but how would&#x27;ve you like to have 5-5 in a box pool in the Cleveland /Baltimore game yesterday.  25-15.  I&#x27;d like to know how many games have ended 5-5?

switchwalk · Answer

1points is impossible. not mathematically unlikely; it simply cant happen.5-5 is far more likely than 4-4.5-5 involves the offense scoring two field goals.for 4-4 to occur, the offense need to be in a part of the field where they are able to get tackled in their own endzone on 4 separate occasions, where no team is able to score by any other means. any more than 4 points and the scoring in the game can be influenced by regular scoring plays like FGs and TDs, which are more likely than safties

switchwalk · Answer

I think you should just casually post that in the CT thread

eddothebook · Answer

I thought about that but what&#x27;s more unlikely. A 0-0 overtime or a 2-0 overtime?Not sure how many points will need to be scored in a game for it to be more rare than 6-4 (OT).. Oregon showed it can score 100.. So two teams like Oregon go at it back and forth and then in college overtime and we have 100&#x2B; each.Georgia Tech once beat Cumberland 222-0, which was also the highest scoring football game ever. We also have several teams that scored in the 100&#x27;s or even 150&#x27;s.But never seen a score like 2-0, 2-2, 4-2, 4-4 or 6-4 (OT).

switchwalk · Answer

While it may seem more improbable for a game to end with irrationally high scores like 100-17 than 4-4 (OT)Im trying to rationalize it with this pretty wacky logic, see if you follow;

Depending on field position, the probability of scoring any type of play dramatically changes. Obviously, you are more likely to score an offensive TD from the opponents 1 yard line, then you are to score from your own goal line. With safeties, its the same situation, however I would assume that the majority of safeties would occur from plays within 20 or so yards of your own goal line. Now, comparatively, which event is less probable:

you score a 99yard touch down; or surrender a 100yard safety?

the safety right? 99yd Touchdowns happen every year, i cant recall a single player scrambling backwards 100yards for a safety.

Would it then be rational to assume the odds of scoring a touchdown on the vast majority of plays in a football game far outweigh the odds of a safety occurring off any given play?

way more than probably.

So if its far, far, far, far, far more likely for teams to score touchdowns than safeties, we can safely assume its more likely for any team to score multiple touchdowns, than multiple safeties.Therefore, would a game with an irrational amount of touchdowns or an irrational amount of safeties, be less likely?

I say irrational amount of the less likely event; the safety.

did that make ANY sense?

Uconn34 · Answer

Lol that was great switch walk...made sense I think ha

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