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Is Amari Cooper for Brandon Aiyuk fair?

Amari Cooper and Brandon Aiyuk have been on opposite sides of 29 real dynasty trades.

Not simulations and not a calculator lining up two numbers. Every one of them is a completed trade from a public Sleeper league, graded at the player values that were current on the day it happened.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Amari Cooper for Brandon Aiyuk, nothing else changing hands.

In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 4 to 4 between the Amari Cooper side and the Brandon Aiyuk side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

29
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
4 / 4
One side sweetened: Amari Cooper / Brandon Aiyuk
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Amari CooperWent with Brandon Aiyuk
2025-04-02-36%Wan'Dale Robinson, George Pickens, 1 1stXavier Gipson, Jaylen Waddle, Romeo Doubs
2025-02-17-4%Josh Allen, Cole KmetSam LaPorta, Jared Goff
2024-11-22-66%Calvin Ridley
2024-11-10+9%Dalton Kincaid, James Cook, Tank Dell, 1 later pickChuba Hubbard, Isiah Pacheco, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-11-09-21%Rhamondre Stevenson1 later pick
2024-10-25-108%
2024-10-24-77%Isaac Guerendo
2024-10-24+3%Patrick Mahomes, Zack MossJordan Whittington, Anthony Richardson, 2 2nds
2024-10-24-41%DeAndre Hopkins, Travis Kelce, Cooper KuppJustin Fields, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-10-22-76%1 later pick

Read each row as: Amari Cooper, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Brandon Aiyuk plus anything in the fourth. An em dash means that side sent nobody else. Margin is the value gap at that day’s prices from the side that received Amari Cooper; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 29, the whole-deal value gap runs -22.5% from the side that received Amari Cooper, so the side ending up with Brandon Aiyuk has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Amari Cooper for Brandon Aiyuk fair” by subtracting one number from another, and it gives every manager in your league the same answer. That tells you nothing about whether the trade closes. What closes it is whether one side has to attach a piece, and which side that usually is. The 29 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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