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Is Derek Carr for Deshaun Watson fair?

Derek Carr and Deshaun Watson 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 6 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 5 of those 6 times it was the Derek Carr side (1 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Deshaun Watson as the more valuable of the two.

23
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
5 / 1
One side sweetened: Derek Carr / Deshaun Watson
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derek CarrWent with Deshaun Watson
2024-11-07+19%1 3rd
2024-09-18-66%Gabe Davis, Aaron RodgersJoshua Palmer, Zamir White
2024-09-07-25%Mark AndrewsEvan Engram, 1 3rd
2024-08-23-15%Ja'Marr Chase, 1 2ndGarrett Wilson, 1 1st
2024-04-25+48%1 1st2 2nds
2023-10-07-82%1 2nd
2023-09-05-96%Austin EkelerNick Chubb, DeVonta Smith
2023-07-19+36%Jonathan Taylor, Kayshon BoutteAlec Pierce
2023-06-12+34%1 1st1 2nd
2023-05-19+4%DeAndre Hopkins, Josh Jacobs, Tony PollardBrandon Aiyuk, Elijah Moore, Rachaad White

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

The whole-deal margin

Across all 23, the whole-deal value gap runs -14.8% from the side that received Derek Carr, so the side ending up with Deshaun Watson 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 Derek Carr for Deshaun Watson 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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