OT: A football puzzle

[pergesu]

Any score that has the Broncos leading.

Cause with Plummer as our QB, how could we possibly ever have a lead? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[schwza]

69-69

[GtrHtr]

5 - 2

[lorinda]

4-4 would be remarkable. Anything over 70-70 would be ridiculous and unacceptably strange.

0-0 would be pretty strange.

2-0 would be acceptably pretty strange for me.

Lori

[schwza]

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4-4 would be remarkable. Anything over 70-70 would be ridiculous and unacceptably strange.

0-0 would be pretty strange.

2-0 would be acceptably pretty strange for me.

Lori

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you don't know what time it is. i'd say 0-0 is many times more likely than any other score.

[lorinda]

you don't know what time it is. i'd say 0-0 is many times more likely than any other score.

I was wrong. I was thinking that as we were late, and the average game stays 0-0 for maybe 4 minutes (pulled out of my backside), then if it were still 0-0 I'd be quite surprised, however following on from that, the first score is either a TD or a FG so it will be 3-0 or 7-0 for at the very most an equal amount of time to the 0-0, so basically I suck.

The way to solve this must be to say that each scoring play can happen x% of the time in each minute (etc)

However, in the real world, if we know we're late and we dash into the stadium, I'd still be surprised if it were 0-0 [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Lori

[bmxreed36]

2 to (-3).

Serioulsy I think it would have to involve having 1 point. Me and a co-worker argued about this for awhile, about how a team can get only 1 point. I think the rules may be different for college and pros but we never bothered to look it up.

[Ixnert]

I'm assuming pro (NFL) football -- no 2-point conversions -- and ruling out scores that would be strange just by virtue of being unreasonably large (I would find it strange to walk into a stadium and see that the score was 143-133, even if it was quite clear what combination of scores would add up to those numbers).

Safeties are by far the rarest scoring play, so anything that requires that both teams had at least one would be quite strange. 4-4 would require that both teams had exactly two, and I think would probably be the strangest possible, as a large number of field goals still isn't as rare as a single safety.

11-11 would probably be my second choice. (Several ways for this to happen, but all of them require something at least moderately strange.)

[lorinda]

5-5 might actually be stranger in practise as if the teams are capable of getting a safety each, it might be quite hard for them to get a field goal.

Lori

[Daliman]

1-0