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Is Amari Cooper for Davante Adams fair?

Amari Cooper and Davante Adams have been on opposite sides of 24 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 8 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 8 of those 8 times it was the Amari Cooper side (0 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Davante Adams as the more valuable of the two.

24
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
8 / 0
One side sweetened: Amari Cooper / Davante Adams
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Amari CooperWent with Davante Adams
2025-05-14+33%Jayden Reed, Brian Thomas, Zach Ertz, 6 more, 1 1stRussell Wilson, Derrick Henry, Cooper Kupp, 6 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-10-17+82%Marvin Harrison, Tyler HuntleyDeAndre Hopkins, Matthew Stafford, Austin Ekeler, 2 more, 1 2nd
2024-04-23-39%1 3rd
2024-03-03-7%1 2nd
2023-11-25-55%David Montgomery, 1 2ndTony Pollard, 1 3rd
2023-11-25-75%1 2nd
2023-11-22+51%Derrick Henry, 1 1stAlec Pierce
2023-09-28-53%Charlie Jones, Ryan Tannehill, Evan Engram, 2 moreRichie James, Deonte Harty, Marquez Callaway, 2 more
2023-07-27-63%Nico Collins, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-06-23-3%Rhamondre StevensonRachaad White

Read each row as: Amari Cooper, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Davante Adams 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 24, the whole-deal value gap runs -25.8% from the side that received Amari Cooper, so the side ending up with Davante Adams 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 Davante Adams 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 24 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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