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Is Derek Carr for Zach Wilson fair?

Derek Carr and Zach Wilson have been on opposite sides of 21 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 Zach Wilson, nothing else changing hands.

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 0 to 2 between the Derek Carr side and the Zach Wilson side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

21
Deals they were both in
1
Straight up, one for one
0 / 2
One side sweetened: Derek Carr / Zach Wilson
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Derek CarrWent with Zach Wilson
2023-10-03+23%2 2nds
2022-12-29+29%2 2ndsMichael Gallup, Mac Jones
2022-12-06+57%Logan Thomas, Matt Ryan, David MontgomeryMatthew Stafford, Cam Akers, John Metchie
2022-10-15+2%Brian RobinsonElijah Mitchell
2022-08-24-33%Allen Lazard, 1 3rd1 1st
2022-08-22+9%John Franklin-Myers, Dax HillDavid Ojabo, Kyle Hamilton, 1 2nd
2022-08-04-38%Michael GallupGarrett Wilson
2022-07-31+8%A.J. Brown, Cam AkersGeorge Pickens, Garrett Wilson, Breece Hall
2022-06-29+2%Deebo Samuel, 1 3rdBreece Hall
2022-06-28-28%Irv Smith, Christian Watson, 1 2ndJahan Dotson, 1 1st, 1 3rd

Read each row as: Derek Carr, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zach Wilson 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 21, 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 Zach Wilson 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 21 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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