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Is Derek Carr for Jordan Love fair?

Derek Carr and Jordan Love have been on opposite sides of 22 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 4 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, and 4 of those 4 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 Jordan Love as the more valuable of the two.

22
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
4 / 0
One side sweetened: Derek Carr / Jordan Love
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derek CarrWent with Jordan Love
2025-02-01-31%1 1st, 2 2nds
2024-11-15-36%Cedric Tillman, Jonathan TaylorMike Williams, Tee Higgins
2024-10-10-23%1 1st1 3rd
2024-09-07-14%Christian McCaffrey2 3rds
2024-08-16-52%Spencer Rattler, Jameson Williams, Isiah PachecoZach Charbonnet
2024-08-04+10%D'Andre Swift, Jalen Tolbert, David Bell, 4 more, 2 1sts, 2 later picksRoschon Johnson, Jamaal Williams, Aaron Jones, 9 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd, 2 3rds
2024-05-13-72%George Pickens, 1 2nd
2024-05-04+19%Kenneth Walker, 1 1st, 1 3rd2 2nds, 1 3rd
2024-03-02-54%Derrick Henry, 1 1stDe'Von Achane
2023-12-19+90%Deebo Samuel, Travis Etienne

Read each row as: Derek Carr, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jordan Love 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 22, the whole-deal value gap runs -10.9% from the side that received Derek Carr, so the side ending up with Jordan Love 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 Jordan Love 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 22 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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