OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Each play (counting untimed downs as part of the previous play) can score at most 8 points for one team.
The same as counting walks that return to the x-axis of x-length n from the origin bounded above by y=8, below by y=-8, and using the steps {[1,8],..,[1,2],[1,-2],..,[1,-8]}.
LINKS
Bryan Ek, Lattice Walk Enumeration, arXiv:1803.10920 [math.CO], 2018.
Bryan Ek, Unimodal Polynomials and Lattice Walk Enumeration with Experimental Mathematics, arXiv:1804.05933 [math.CO], 2018.
FORMULA
G.f.: (1-4*t-45*t^2-43*t^3+98*t^4+108*t^5-24*t^6-30*t^7)/(1-4*t-59*t^2-77*t^3+170*t^4+234*t^5-92*t^6-142*t^7-4*t^8+6*t^9).
EXAMPLE
There are no tied games with 1 scoring play. To have tied games after 2 scoring plays requires each team to score the same number of points (7 possibilities) in each play (2 orderings): hence 14 walks.
MAPLE
taylor((1-4*t-45*t^2-43*t^3+98*t^4+108*t^5-24*t^6-30*t^7)/(1-4*t-59*t^2-77*t^3+170*t^4+234*t^5-92*t^6-142*t^7-4*t^8+6*t^9), t=0, N);
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,walk
AUTHOR
Bryan T. Ek, Mar 20 2018
STATUS
approved