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Is Amari Cooper for Calvin Ridley fair?

Amari Cooper and Calvin Ridley have been on opposite sides of 23 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

In 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 2 to 2 between the Amari Cooper side and the Calvin Ridley side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
2 / 2
One side sweetened: Amari Cooper / Calvin Ridley
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Amari CooperWent with Calvin Ridley
2024-09-07+64%Tony PollardRomeo Doubs
2023-08-06+14%Elijah Mitchell
2023-07-09+26%Jonathan TaylorDeVonta Smith, 1 2nd
2023-05-02+36%A.J. Brown, Isiah PachecoMichael Thomas, James Cook, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-03-19+28%Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews, Khalil ShakirDavante Adams, Kareem Hunt, Pat Freiermuth, 1 1st
2022-12-12-2%Travis Kelce, Tyreek HillCooper Kupp, Trey McBride, Breece Hall
2022-12-06-16%Robert Woods, Tyler Boyd, Tyreek Hill, 1 moreCooper Kupp, Breece Hall
2022-11-22+44%1 later pick1 2nd
2022-10-14+26%JuJu Smith-Schuster
2022-05-05-23%Derrick Henry, 1 2ndChristian McCaffrey

Read each row as: Amari Cooper, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Calvin Ridley 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 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +1.6% from the side that received Amari Cooper - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Amari Cooper for Calvin Ridley 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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