Both abandoned matches and forfeits occurred to me. I think in most sports, a forfeit is recorded as a 1-0 score for the “winning” team, but I haven’t looked it up. Is that the case in cricket?
the result would be a tie, not a draw.
Okay, that’s new to me. What’s the difference between a tie and a draw? In test cricket, I presume a draw is an unfinished result, where a team was still batting at the close of the final day of the match. A tie would be where both teams had level scores at the end of a completed match.
I’ll answer my own question. It’s covered by Law 16 of the Laws of Cricket. Thanks.
Just a little interjection, since I mentioned combinatorial games (e.g., a game where you pick from a set of legal moves on each turn): a game position might be analysed and determined to be valued 2 points, meaning that one of the players has a 2-move advantage. But, amusingly, it is possible to construct game positions where the value is 2⅓, or -π, or *3, ↑, +500, ω, all sorts of crazy values, which I thought was remarkable.
While in normal competition Rugby games can end in a draw at full-time, in knockout competition formats (such as after pool rounds during the Rugby World Cup) and for competition finals there are overtime rules used to force a result. This is generally two 10-minute periods of play. If the scores are still level after that period, then there is an additional 10 minutes of Golden Point play (first scoring point wins). If there still is not a result, there will be penalty kicks until a result is determined.
I’ve never encountered a mini-golf course without a stroke limit. That being the case, and if “scoring” is defined as actually getting the ball in the hole, then a no-score mini-golf game is certainly possible.
It’s possible to have a blank end in curling; in fact, it’s pretty common. It would be pretty damn unlikely to have a whole game of them. In tournaments like the Olympics, they play extra ends to determine a winner.
At a neighborhood club, on a league night, there’s usually a time limit. Another game is scheduled, so you have to be finished in two hours or so. It’s theoretically possible for one of those games to end in a scoreless tie, but I’d be very surprised to see it happen.
I don’t remember watching that game, but clarify something for me, if you would. If Miami had grabbed the ball, would that have been considered an onside kick with a recovery? Or would it have just been downed like a normal punt?
Yes, of course. What I meant to say is that in a formal tournament setting each player will be awarded ½ point for a drawn game (and games will be over in a finite amount of time). I should have said “outcome” instead of “result”.
Very theoretically, because of perfect information, either one of the two players can win by following an optimal strategy, or they can force a draw, but it is not feasible to try to figure it out by simply enumerating all the positions.
On a punt, until it’s touched by the receiving team, the punting team cannot recover the ball – if a Miami player had picked it up, it would have been downed at that spot anyway, as a first down for the Steelers. This happens frequently on punts, when the receiving team’s punt returner elects to not field the punt.
Not sure why the NHL didn’t overhaul their points system when they went to regular season OT. A regulation game is worth 2points (all to the regulation winner if any). But an OT game is worth 3 points. This could prove dire to a tem trying to chase down 2 others for the last playoff spot, when an OT game could keep those 2 teams out in front even if the other wins. Regulation wins should thus be worth 3 points, but I guess the NHL didn’t want to make the old system obsolete (for team records).
Just to clarify this (for readers who aren’t as familiar with the NHL): under the NHL’s current rules, a team which wins a game in OT receives 2 points, just as they did in the past. But, under the old rules, a team which lost in overtime got no points, whereas now, the losing team is awarded one point for an “OT loss.” Hence, 3 total points are awarded in an OT NHL game: 2 points to the winner, and 1 point to the loser.
You may be misinterpreting @OldGuy 's post (I did so, the first time I read it). I think he is saying (paraphrasing) “A tie game in MLB doesn’t count as 1/2 a win and 1/2 a loss, the way it does in the NFL”.