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Is Daniel Jones for Derek Carr fair?

Daniel Jones and Derek Carr 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.

None of them were a straight one-for-one. Every time these two crossed, something else was attached to close it.

This is the part a calculator cannot tell you. In 7 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 7 times it was the Derek Carr side (3 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Daniel Jones as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
3 / 4
One side sweetened: Daniel Jones / Derek Carr
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Daniel JonesWent with Derek Carr
2024-12-06+6%DeMario Douglas
2024-10-09-106%Najee HarrisCam Akers, De'Von Achane
2024-03-12+78%Joe MixonChase Brown, Parker Washington
2023-11-06+96%Tyler Boyd, J.K. Dobbins, Cole Kmet, 1 moreGardner Minshew
2023-11-02-26%Puka Nacua, 1 2nd, 1 3rdTyreek Hill
2023-10-14+60%Deonte Banks, Tommy DeVito, Clayton Thorson, 2 more, 2 2nds, 2 later picksJake Haener, Jordan Howden, Jameis Winston, 1 more
2023-10-13+54%Adam Thielen
2023-10-03+105%Joshua Dobbs
2023-07-27-48%Michael Gallup, Dameon PierceTravis Etienne, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2023-05-10-20%Treylon Burks

Read each row as: Daniel Jones, 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 Daniel Jones; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs +13.3% from the side that received Daniel Jones, so the side ending up with Daniel Jones 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 Daniel Jones 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 23 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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