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Is Ezekiel Elliott for Javonte Williams fair?

Ezekiel Elliott and Javonte Williams 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.

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

In 2 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 1 between the Ezekiel Elliott side and the Javonte Williams side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

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Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
1 / 1
One side sweetened: Ezekiel Elliott / Javonte Williams
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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with Ezekiel ElliottWent with Javonte Williams
2024-08-22-31%Keenan Allen, 2 later picks
2023-07-12-4%Drake London, Chig OkonkwoIsaiah McKenzie, George Kittle, Sam Darnold, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2023-05-16+8%Deebo Samuel, 1 1stGeorge Pickens
2023-04-13-27%Tyler Lockett, 1 1st, 1 2ndMiles Sanders, George Pickens, 1 3rd
2023-02-16-16%Dak Prescott, Mike Gesicki, Deebo Samuel, 1 3rd, 1 later pickIsaiah Hodgins, Trevor Lawrence
2022-10-09-13%Keenan Allen, Aaron JonesTyler Allgeier, 1 2nd
2022-10-05-9%Lamar Jackson, Michael GallupJacoby Brissett, Baker Mayfield, George Pickens, 1 more, 1 1st, 1 2nd
2022-07-24-75%1 1st1 2nd
2022-05-12-23%Derek Carr, Dalton Schultz, Mark Andrews, 1 more, 1 2ndJimmy Garoppolo, Noah Fant, Donald Parham, 2 more, 1 3rd
2022-05-09-17%DK Metcalf, 1 3rd1 1st, 1 2nd

Read each row as: Ezekiel Elliott, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Javonte Williams 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 Ezekiel Elliott; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 21, the whole-deal value gap runs -17.1% from the side that received Ezekiel Elliott, so the side ending up with Javonte Williams 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 Ezekiel Elliott for Javonte Williams 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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