Ridiculously long penalty shootout. No one can miss!

[priority76]

Are penalty shoot-outs this long commonplace in FM24 or have I just been "blessed" to experience one?  I had to go and make a cup of tea half way through.  I wasn't bothered I didn't win, I was just relieved it was over!

[du Garbandier]

that's a good one, but I'd say shootouts that don't go beyond the 5 are the exception rather than the rule

[wazzaflow10]

On 12/01/2024 at 19:07, priority76 said:

Are penalty shoot-outs this long commonplace in FM24 or have I just been "blessed" to experience one?  I had to go and make a cup of tea half way through.  I wasn't bothered I didn't win, I was just relieved it was over!

Theoretically speaking... if penalties are expected to score about 80% of the time then about 1.5% of them will be tied after 5 shooters. After that we basically flip a weighted coin. Getting 34 successes in a row (shots 6 to 22 for each team) has a probability of .0005 or .05% chance. So .015 * .0005 = 0.0000075 or a .00075% chance of happening. Something like 1 in 133,333 shootouts.

[Tom 99]

It was a long penalty shootout, but you still missed the record:

 

"In a nail-biting finish, the final of the 2005 Namibian Cup had to be settled by a record-breaking 48 penalty kicks, with KK Palace holding their nerve to defeat the Civics 17–16 following a 2–2 draw in normal time. A number of players on each side had to take three spot kicks in the shootout, which lasted almost as long as the game."

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-penalty-shootout/?fb_comment_id=1000071126673773_1208584389155778