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Is Calvin Ridley for Mike Williams fair?

Calvin Ridley and Mike Williams 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.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 5 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 5 times it was the Mike Williams side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Calvin Ridley as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
1 / 4
One side sweetened: Calvin Ridley / Mike Williams
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Calvin RidleyWent with Mike Williams
2025-07-03+14%Chris Rodriguez, Rashee Rice, Luke Schoonmaker, 11 more, 1 2ndMichael Wilson, Marvin Harrison, Ryan Flournoy, 11 more
2025-05-11+57%Nick Westbrook-IkhineStefon Diggs
2024-06-23-86%Adonai MitchellRachaad White
2024-04-01-49%Jameson Williams, Will LevisGus Edwards, 1 1st
2024-02-20+64%DeMario Douglas
2023-08-07+24%Tee Higgins, Keaontay Ingram, 1 3rd, 1 later pickElijah Moore, Kadarius Toney, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-05-27+46%Michael Gallup, Javonte Williams, Chig OkonkwoMichael Thomas, J.K. Dobbins
2023-05-09+23%Chris Olave2 1sts
2023-05-07-2%Courtland Sutton, Jahan Dotson, Rachaad White, 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 2 3rdsMike Evans, Ja'Marr Chase
2023-04-30+32%1 3rd1 3rd

Read each row as: Calvin Ridley, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Mike Williams 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 Calvin Ridley; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +14.4% from the side that received Calvin Ridley, so the side ending up with Calvin Ridley 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 Calvin Ridley for Mike Williams 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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