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Is Dalvin Cook for Travis Etienne fair?

Dalvin Cook and Travis Etienne 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.

Most of those were larger deals with other pieces attached. 1 of them were straight up: Dalvin Cook for Travis Etienne, nothing else changing hands.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 6 of those 6 times it was the Travis Etienne 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 Dalvin Cook as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
0 / 6
One side sweetened: Dalvin Cook / Travis Etienne
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Dalvin CookWent with Travis Etienne
2023-06-01-8%Tyreek Hill, Saquon Barkley, Nick ChubbJaylen Waddle, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-05-24+3%Austin Ekeler, Tony PollardPat Freiermuth, Dameon Pierce, 1 3rd, 1 later pick
2023-04-28-12%A.J. BrownStefon Diggs
2022-09-26-11%Mike Evans, Alexander Mattison2 1sts
2022-09-20+34%Nick Chubb, Marquise Brown, Daniel JonesKeenan Allen, Baker Mayfield, Garrett Wilson
2022-08-01+15%Stefon Diggs, Cole KmetTee Higgins, James Robinson, Brevin Jordan
2022-07-02+2%Russell Gage, Elijah Mitchell1 1st, 1 3rd
2022-04-04-18%DeAndre Hopkins, Tom Brady, Jarvis Landry, 3 moreRob Gronkowski, Kyler Murray, Josh Jacobs, 1 more
2022-04-03+74%
2022-03-18-25%2 3rds1 1st, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Dalvin Cook, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Travis Etienne 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 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +10.0% 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 Travis Etienne 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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