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Is James Cook for Jameson Williams fair?

James Cook and Jameson Williams have been on opposite sides of 20 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. 3 of them were straight up: James Cook for Jameson Williams, nothing else changing hands.

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 Jameson Williams 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 James Cook as the more valuable of the two.

20
Deals they were both in
3
Straight up, one for one
0 / 4
One side sweetened: James Cook / Jameson Williams

What they cost today

Everything above is priced on the day each deal happened, which is the only honest way to grade a completed trade. It is not what they cost now. Today James Cook prices at 6,703 and Jameson Williams at 2,917, so the market currently rates James Cook about 2.3x the other. A pair can lean one way across its history and price the opposite way now; that gap is the whole reason to check the deal in front of you rather than the deal someone made in 2023.

Values as of 2026-07-24.

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The deals themselves

DateMarginWent with James CookWent with Jameson Williams
2026-05-31+17%Oscar Delp, Mark Andrews, 1 2ndJonathon Brooks, 1 1st
2026-03-28-19%Andrei Iosivas, Tuli Tuipulotu, Zay Flowers, 1 2nd, 1 later pickKyle Monangai, D'Andre Swift, Chris Olave, 1 1st
2025-11-05-2%George Kittle2 1sts, 1 3rd
2025-08-22+14%1 2nd
2025-08-09+30%
2025-06-19-41%Keon Coleman, Tank Dell, 1 later pick1 1st
2025-06-09+29%1 2nd
2025-05-31+48%
2025-04-19+43%
2025-03-15+47%Erick All

Read each row as: James Cook, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Jameson 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 James Cook; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 20, the whole-deal value gap runs +34.6% from the side that received James Cook, so the side ending up with James Cook 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 James Cook for Jameson 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 20 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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