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Is Austin Ekeler for Leonard Fournette fair?

Austin Ekeler and Leonard Fournette have been on opposite sides of 20 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. 2 of them were straight up: Austin Ekeler for Leonard Fournette, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 5 times it was the Leonard Fournette 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 Austin Ekeler as the more valuable of the two.

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Deals they were both in
2
Straight up, one for one
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One side sweetened: Austin Ekeler / Leonard Fournette
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Austin EkelerWent with Leonard Fournette
2023-07-08+13%Jordan Love, Darnell Mooney, Tyquan ThorntonDeAndre Hopkins, Mike Williams, Jamaal Williams, 1 1st
2023-03-31-26%Tee Higgins
2022-10-25+69%1 later pickTommy Tremble, 1 2nd, 2 later picks
2022-09-29-1%Michael ThomasMatthew Stafford, Travis Etienne
2022-09-20-1%George PickensDK Metcalf, 1 2nd
2022-09-15+54%1 2nd2 1sts
2022-07-10+35%Keenan AllenMike Evans, 1 2nd
2022-05-04-31%Zach Ertz, Taylor Heinicke, Carson Wentz, 3 more, 1 later pickMatt Ryan, Jamison Crowder, James Conner, 1 more, 1 later pick
2022-04-26+20%1 1st, 1 2nd
2022-04-05+5%1 1st, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Austin Ekeler, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Leonard Fournette 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 Austin Ekeler; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs +18.8% from the side that received Austin Ekeler, so the side ending up with Austin Ekeler 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 Austin Ekeler for Leonard Fournette 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 20 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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