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Is Derek Carr for Matthew Stafford fair?

Derek Carr and Matthew Stafford have been on opposite sides of 28 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: Derek Carr for Matthew Stafford, 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 4 of those 6 times it was the Derek Carr side (2 the other way). The side that keeps having to add is the side holding the lesser asset, so the market has been treating Matthew Stafford as the more valuable of the two.

28
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
4 / 2
One side sweetened: Derek Carr / Matthew Stafford
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derek CarrWent with Matthew Stafford
2025-01-08+15%2 2nds1 3rd
2024-12-11-20%1 3rd, 1 later pick
2024-11-19+34%Spencer Rattler, Blake Corum, Malik Washington, 5 more, 1 1st, 2 3rds, 1 later pickDevaughn Vele, Zach Ertz, Keenan Allen, 6 more
2024-10-11-23%1 3rd1 later pick
2024-09-12+21%A.J. Brown, Amon-Ra St. BrownMike Evans, Christian McCaffrey, Gus Edwards, 1 more, 1 3rd
2024-08-05-75%Spencer Rattler, 2 3rds1 2nd, 1 later pick
2024-05-07-57%
2024-04-17-57%1 1st, 1 2ndJonathan Taylor, 1 3rd
2024-03-28+58%Mike Evans, Nick Chubb, Jerome FordJ.K. Dobbins, Marvin Mims, 1 2nd
2024-03-09+29%1 2nd1 3rd

Read each row as: Derek Carr, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Matthew Stafford 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 28, the whole-deal value gap runs +1.6% from the side that received Derek Carr - close to even. Read that as a measure of the entire trade, every piece included, not of these two players against each other.

Why this beats a calculator on this exact question

A calculator answers “is Derek Carr for Matthew Stafford 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 28 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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