Christian McCaffrey 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.
None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.
In 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 3 between the Christian McCaffrey side and the Dalvin Cook side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.
| Date | Margin | Went with Christian McCaffrey | Went with Dalvin Cook |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-18 | +64% | Elijah Mitchell, 1 3rd | Alexander Mattison, Jordan Love, Greg Dulcich |
| 2023-04-17 | -12% | Kareem Hunt | 2 1sts |
| 2023-02-21 | +50% | — | Aaron Jones, Cole Kmet |
| 2023-02-10 | +7% | Leonard Fournette, Tee Higgins | James Conner, David Montgomery, CeeDee Lamb |
| 2022-10-22 | +15% | 1 2nd | 1 1st |
| 2022-10-21 | +15% | — | Mike Evans |
| 2022-08-10 | +8% | Tyler Lockett | Keenan Allen |
| 2022-07-27 | -2% | Darren Waller, Harold Landry, Diontae Johnson | Za'Darius Smith, Dalton Schultz, CeeDee Lamb |
| 2022-06-20 | +42% | Curtis Samuel, 1 3rd | 1 2nd |
| 2022-06-08 | -12% | DJ Moore, Dre Greenlaw, 2 2nds | Justin Jefferson, Aidan Hutchinson |
Read each row as: Christian McCaffrey, 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 Christian McCaffrey; positive means that side came out ahead.
Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs +10.0% from the side that received Christian McCaffrey, so the side ending up with Christian McCaffrey has generally come out ahead on face value. That measures the entire trade, every piece included, not these two players against each other.
A calculator answers “is Christian McCaffrey 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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