The Diggs Equation — Will Josh Allen Pass to Stefon Diggs?

Joe Alongi
14 min readOct 21, 2023

This season of the NFL (National Football League), I began playing Fantasy Football through the ESPN Fantasy Football League with some people from work. At first, I was not very intrigued, due mostly to the fact that I am not really a football fan but figured it would offer up some interesting weekly rivalries, conversations, and be an interesting experience all together.

When the draft began, I picked some of the players I knew, from overhearing names, NFL clips on YouTube, and local players I have heard are quite good. I picked who I liked, and then worked through the statistics offered on the platform trying to find players I thought would score points and play a majority of the season.

The team overall is a group of familiar names, faces, and numbers at various stages of their career and skill level, none the same, they are my team. Each week the matchup occurs, and I am presented with a ratio type progress bar under my team’s name, which at the beginning of the week, you see the teams projected points against your opponent's points, and throughout the forecasted versus actual points accrued.

Around two weeks ago, I was behind about four (4) points, I had two (2) players left to play, and the progress bar was telling me I had a ninety-nine percent (99%) chance of losing the week. I knew…

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