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Is Cam Akers for Dalvin Cook fair?

Cam Akers and Dalvin Cook have been on opposite sides of 21 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. 1 of them were straight up: Cam Akers for Dalvin Cook, nothing else changing hands.

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 1 between the Cam Akers side and the Dalvin Cook side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

21
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
1 / 1
One side sweetened: Cam Akers / Dalvin Cook
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Cam AkersWent with Dalvin Cook
2024-02-17+38%Davante Adams, Demarcus Robinson, James Cook, 1 moreRoschon Johnson, Khalil Herbert, Dameon Pierce, 3 more
2023-06-22-3%1 3rd
2023-06-12-32%Curtis Samuel, 2 2nds, 1 3rdRussell Wilson, Jamaal Williams, Taysom Hill, 1 3rd
2023-01-26-39%Rhamondre Stevenson, 1 2ndTravis Etienne
2022-10-25+20%Kenyan Drake, Calvin Ridley, Kyler MurrayDeAndre Hopkins, Jamaal Williams, Zach Wilson
2022-10-14+9%Tua TagovailoaMarcus Mariota, 1 2nd
2022-09-05-65%JuJu Smith-Schuster, Elijah MitchellCordarrelle Patterson, Davante Adams, Kenyan Drake, 1 later pick
2022-08-10+39%2 1sts1 3rd
2022-08-10+4%1 1stAlexander Mattison
2022-07-17-44%

Read each row as: Cam Akers, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Dalvin Cook 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 Cam Akers; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -4.9% from the side that received Cam Akers, so the side ending up with Dalvin Cook 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 Cam Akers for Dalvin Cook 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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