Is there anyone who wants to take a stab at figuring out how often on average he would have to have slept with a woman to set this record? I’m thinking along the lines of:
If he did this over W amount of years, and he played in X amount of games, and each game is Y amount of minutes long, then that would leave Z minutes for him to sleep with 20k women. I know there’s a lot more to it than that, but I thought it would be interesting to get a number out there…
At the time of his death, Wilt Chamberlain was 63. If he started at puberty (we’ll say 13) and kept at it 'til the end, he’d need to do 400 women per year, or just over one a day, on average.
((W * 525600) - (W * 175200) - (X * Y) - P) = Z
P is practice time and the second term is sleep time. Real sleep time, not “sleep” time. 
Remember most of this took place before the era of computers. Think how long it took each year to just address the valentines, mother’s day cards etc.
And what would Wilt do if he got a reply from Donna Smith of New York(which one??).
Let’s assume that Will spent 10 hours a day doing things other than having sex. I think that is very fair. Over the 50 year period we are assuming he was active, that totals 255,500 hours of possible sex time. Divide 20,000 women by this number of hours, and we find out that he would be “bagging” .07 gals every hour, or 7 women every 4 days! Obviously it seems logical to deduce that he probably spent more than 10 hours a day sleeping, eating, playing basketball, practicing, playing his instruments, golfing hanging out with friends, and so on. The 20,000 number seems pretty unrealistic from this point of view. However, we are assuming only one partner at a time here. If we say, for example, that instead of sleeping with 7 women over 100 hours on average, that he slept with 3 one night, and 4 the next, then he is well ahead of schedule.
My question is: If he DID have sex with this many women, how much money did it cost him?
I heard he claimed 10,000, not 20,000.
…now that’s closer to my number, and I don’t play basketball.
You know, if he had had some control over his sex drive, he could have turned out to be a decent basketball player.
Most people can’t keep track after 50 ppl, so I wonder how he came up with this number? Also, what number could he have infected with a STD, as you never read much about that or victims.
If Wilt used birth control that was 99% effective, he would have about 200 kids. Even if we bump it up to 99.9% effective, Wilt’s alleged number of conquests would leave him with 20 kids.
I’m guessing he said that before he died, so its probably less than 50 years.
…if he got got someone pregnant every time birth control failed.
I believe that, by definition, a birth control failure means a pregnancy.
Yeah, I would say thats a pretty good guess 
First of all, he made his claim in a book published in 1991. That means that there could be an uncertain number of additional women between 1991 and his death.
Not unreasonable! 
However, I think Mahaloth is just making the point that every time a condom breaks (also a failure) does not lead to a pregnancy, nor would a women get pregnant every time she misses a pill.
Maybe he often slept with several women at once?
I believe the idea is that failure is measured as something like % of women who would get pregnant in a year using this method - so using nothing at all has a success rate. But I might be completely wrong, that’s just the impression given above.
Does anyone know if Wilt actually had any children? I’ve never heard of anyone claiming to be his offspring, unlike say, Shawn Kemp, an NBA player (in both senses of the word) of more recent vintage.
ESPN answers most of this:
http://espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110836.html
If I was a gal I wouldn’t have touched Wilt with a ten foot pole after that announcement. Assuming he really got going with 20,000 women, basing this on 1993 U.S. STD rates … of those 20,000 gals:
There were 20 with Gonorrhea, 16 had Clamydia (1991 stat)
and 2 had Primary or secondary Syphilis.
This doesn’t include the women with genital warts, non-specific inflammatory disease, hepatitis(s), mono & crabs.
Not so glamorous (or funny) if true.