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Is Dalvin Cook for D'Andre Swift fair?

Dalvin Cook and D'Andre Swift 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.

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 2 to 1 between the Dalvin Cook side and the D'Andre Swift side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
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Straight up, one for one
2 / 1
One side sweetened: Dalvin Cook / D'Andre Swift
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Dalvin CookWent with D'Andre Swift
2023-08-24-2%Alvin Kamara, Mike Williams, Allen LazardJamaal Williams, Alec Pierce, Tank Dell, 1 more, 1 2nd
2023-08-10-53%DeVante Parker, Austin Hooper, Joshua Kelley, 5 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pickDeneric Prince, Rashaad Penny, Dalton Schultz, 5 more, 2 later picks
2023-05-22+26%Joe Mixon, Alvin Kamara, Josh Allen, 1 more, 1 3rd, 1 later pickRoschon Johnson, Tua Tagovailoa, Kadarius Toney, 2 more, 1 1st
2023-03-16+16%Christian Kirk, Justin Herbert, Kenneth WalkerDeVonta Smith, 2 1sts, 2 2nds
2022-08-31-30%Alexander MattisonMyles Gaskin
2022-06-15-8%Keenan Allen, T.J. Hockenson, Alexander Mattison, 1 moreGeorge Kittle, Tee Higgins, Jameson Williams, 1 2nd
2022-04-17+31%J.K. Dobbins, Darnell Mooney
2022-04-10+14%DJ Moore, A.J. BrownDeAndre Hopkins, Courtland Sutton, 1 1st
2022-04-04-16%Devin Singletary, 2 2nds2 3rds
2022-03-29-27%Germaine Pratt, 1 2nd

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs +5.1% from the side that received Dalvin Cook, 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 Dalvin Cook for D'Andre Swift 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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