Most trade tools add up two point totals and call it a verdict. That tells you what the players are worth in the abstract — not what they're worth to your roster, in your league, at this point in your season.
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Trade value charts are genuinely useful, and they're the right starting point. But a single number can't see your bench, your bye weeks, your cap sheet, or whether you're building for this year or two years out. Four things change the answer:
A third running back is worth far less in a league that starts two than in one that starts three with a flex. Scarcity is a property of your league's starting requirements and roster sizes — not a league-agnostic constant.
Value you can't field is value you don't have. Trading a startable WR2 for a better player who rides your bench behind two studs can lower your weekly floor even when the raw totals say you won.
The same trade can be right for a contender and wrong for a rebuild. Age curves, contract length and pick capital pull in different directions depending on which season you're actually playing for.
In salary and contract leagues the cap hit often matters more than the talent gap. A deal that looks lopsided on value can be correct because of what it does to your cap sheet — or fatal because of the dead money it leaves behind.
JerryTrades is powered by JerryGrid™, a multi-factor scoring system that runs against your connected league rather than a generic template. Every factor is shown with its own contribution, so you can disagree with one input without discarding the whole verdict.
"Is this trade fair?" is not one question. It's four, and the format decides which one you're asking.
Value is a function of age, contract and contention window. A 28-year-old producing now and a 22-year-old breakout can carry identical current-season value and wildly different dynasty value. Rookie picks behave like currency, and their worth moves with where you're likely to be drafting.
The keeper rules are the valuation. A player you can retain cheaply for two more years is a different asset from the same player on an expiring keeper slot — and the trade market usually prices that gap too slowly.
Only this season exists, which makes schedule, bye weeks and playoff weeks decisive. Consolidating two startable players into one better one is a real gain only if your bench can absorb the slot you just emptied.
Cap space is an asset you can trade. Absorbing a bad contract to acquire draft capital is a legitimate strategy, and dead money is the cost that most trade tools ignore entirely.
Scan every roster in your league for deals that fit both sides, instead of guessing who might say yes.
A trade only happens if it helps your partner too. Every evaluation is run from both franchises' perspectives.
Send offers by email, capture replies in the same thread, and keep a trade block your leaguemates can actually see.
Analysis runs against your real rosters, scoring settings and starting requirements. Connect once and the values follow your league's rules — not a generic default.
Start with market value on both sides, then adjust for the three things a raw total can't see: whether you can actually start what you're receiving, whether the position is scarce given your league's starting requirements, and whether the timeline matches your season.
A trade that's 5% "down" on paper is often correct if it turns two bench players into a weekly starter. A trade that's 10% "up" can be wrong if it leaves you unable to field a lineup during byes.
A calculator maps players to numbers and compares the sums — fast, useful, and league-agnostic by design. An analyzer takes your league's scoring, roster requirements, cap rules and your own roster into account, then explains which factors drove the verdict.
Put simply: a calculator answers "what are these players worth?" An analyzer answers "should I do this?"
Redraft value is production between now and your championship week. Dynasty value adds age, contract length and the number of seasons a player is likely to stay productive — which is why a 23-year-old and a 29-year-old with identical projections can differ enormously in dynasty.
Draft picks also behave differently. In dynasty they're tradeable currency whose worth depends on where you're likely to be picking; in redraft they usually don't exist at all.
Constantly. Injuries, depth-chart changes, usage trends and the approaching playoff window all move value, and they move it differently for a contender than for a team that's out of it. Value late in a season is as much about your record as the player's production.
A pick's value depends on where it is likely to land, how strong that rookie class looks, and how much your league values rookies relative to proven production. A future first from a contender is not the same asset as a future first from a rebuilding team, even though both are labeled "1st".
JTV — JerryTotalValue — is the single value scale used across the app. It starts from market value and adjusts for your league's scoring, starting requirements and format, so the number you see reflects your league rather than a generic average.
For a general sense of two players' relative worth, no. For an actual recommendation, yes — roster fit, scarcity and cap impact can't be computed without knowing your rosters and settings. Connecting takes a few seconds and is read-only unless you explicitly ask the app to send something to your league.
Yes. JerryTrades is now JerryGM — the name changed because the product outgrew trades alone, adding draft boards, waiver and draft intel, roster and contract management, and season-long reports.
Trade analysis didn't go anywhere; it's still the core of the product. This site remains the home for trade-specific guidance, and the app lives at app.jerrygm.com.
Connect your league, paste in the deal, and see which factors are actually driving the verdict — including the ones arguing against it.
Free to start — no card needed. Trade analysis is part of the Pro plan.