# Number of walkoff wins in an average mlb season

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**Created:** [June 15, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-walkoff-wins-in-an-average-mlb-season/625191 "2012-06-15T01:11:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-walkoff-wins-in-an-average-mlb-season/625191/1 "2012-06-15T01:11:40Z")

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I just listened to a radio ad in which Budweiser promises to donate $5,000 for each MLB walk off win this season. At the end, they mention a caviat that it is limited to $2.5 million. That would be 500, if my math is right. What’s the point of mentioning that? Isn’t that extremely unlikely?

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**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-walkoff-wins-in-an-average-mlb-season/625191/2 "2012-06-15T04:11:33Z")

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According to here ([The Baseball Analysts: Walking Off](http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/08/walking_off.php)), there were 9,887 walkoff wins between 1954 and 2008. So that makes 55 years, making an average of 179.76 walkoff wins (and also losses I suppose) per year. So, there’s that to start out with.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-walkoff-wins-in-an-average-mlb-season/625191/3 "2012-06-15T11:40:54Z")

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> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#):
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> What’s the point of mentioning that? Isn’t that extremely unlikely?

It’s a very easy way to hedge their bet against an unlikely but possible outcome.