LivingSocial’s offer to pay for late-night Metro service during the Nats’ first-round playoff run was a stroke of public relations brilliance—by offering up the $29,500 deposit required to keep the system open for an extra hour, the D.C.-based online coupon site came off as the good corporate citizen that the team’s owners refused to be.

None of it really matters now, though—the Nats are out of the playoffs, and the one game that may have ended after closing didn’t. (It was played on a Friday, when Metro remains open until 3 a.m.) And today the Examiner reports that even if the game would have run late enough to force Metro to stay open, LivingSocial would have gotten its deposit back in full:

Metro logged 15,678 riders entering the system after the game ended, with 12,858 at Navy Yard-Ballpark and the rest from the Capitol South, Federal Center or Waterfront stations, according to Metro. Those figures do not include the regular ridership the system would have had on a Friday night, Metro spokesman Philip Stewart said.

That’s 37 percent of the 41,546-seat Nats stadium.

The flood of riders would have been far more than LivingSocial, the D.C.-based daily deals site, would have needed to break even on its offer to pay for extra Metro service.

To break even, LivingSocial would only have needed 5,504 fans to hop on Metro; almost three times that amount chose to do so.

The Nats’ owners said they wouldn’t pay for the service over MLB concerns that it would set a precedent for other teams in cities with public transit system that close before games end.