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Is Amari Cooper for Terry McLaurin fair?

Amari Cooper and Terry McLaurin 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 1 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 0 between the Amari Cooper side and the Terry McLaurin 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
1 / 0
One side sweetened: Amari Cooper / Terry McLaurin
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Amari CooperWent with Terry McLaurin
2024-11-27+60%Rome Odunze, 1 later pickCourtland Sutton, 1 3rd
2024-11-21+12%Courtland Sutton, Bryce YoungAaron Jones, 1 later pick
2024-09-26+11%Colby Parkinson, Jerome Ford1 2nd
2024-09-19-14%Chuba HubbardMike Williams
2024-09-13-96%Aidan O'Connell, Nick Chubb, Gardner MinshewTua Tagovailoa
2023-11-16+9%Rhamondre StevensonTommy DeVito, Aaron Jones, Zach Wilson
2023-09-14+17%Jerick McKinnon, Tyler Boyd, Kendrick Bourne, 4 moreJeff Wilson, Diontae Johnson, Hunter Renfrow, 5 more
2023-06-09+61%Zay Jones, D'Andre Swift, Jahan Dotson, 2 1sts, 2 3rds1 1st
2023-03-01+3%Zach Ertz, Davante Adams, Jared Goff, 1 moreGus Edwards, Harrison Bryant, Terrace Marshall, 2 more, 1 2nd
2023-02-26-95%Devin Lloyd, Cam Taylor-BrittJahan Dotson

Read each row as: Amari Cooper, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Terry McLaurin 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 +5.1% from the side that received Amari Cooper, so the side ending up with Amari Cooper 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 Terry McLaurin 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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