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Is Dak Prescott for Derek Carr fair?

Dak Prescott and Derek Carr have been on opposite sides of 30 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: Dak Prescott for Derek Carr, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 7 of those 7 times it was the Derek Carr 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 Dak Prescott as the more valuable of the two.

30
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
0 / 7
One side sweetened: Dak Prescott / Derek Carr
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Dak PrescottWent with Derek Carr
2025-05-08+114%Ricky PearsallD'Andre Swift, Ernest Jones, Cade Otton
2024-12-02+116%Ricky PearsallRussell Wilson
2024-11-28-78%1 1st, 1 2ndA.J. Brown
2024-09-22+140%1 2nd
2024-05-04+9%George Kittle, 1 later pick1 1st, 1 2nd
2024-03-19-3%Jaxon Smith-NjigbaZack Moss, Rashod Bateman, 2 1sts
2024-02-20-10%Isiah Pacheco, 1 3rd
2024-01-14+102%Rondale Moore, 2 2nds, 1 later pick
2023-11-22+19%Diontae Johnson, Chris OlaveJa'Marr Chase
2023-07-03-4%Brandin Cooks, Darren WallerMichael Pittman, Jameson Williams

Read each row as: Dak Prescott, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Derek Carr 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 Dak Prescott; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 30, the whole-deal value gap runs +23.9% from the side that received Dak Prescott, so the side ending up with Dak Prescott 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 Dak Prescott for Derek Carr 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 30 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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