Brenden Oliver
3 seasons (2023–2025)
Brenden Oliver owns the best winning percentage among 17 regulars, a .643 clip across three seasons, and an empty trophy case to go with it. The Texas Puppies came closest in 2025, finishing runner-up. Brenden never lets the computer draft, goes receiver in the first round more often than not, and squeezes more out of picks than those slots usually return.
Trophy Case
Regular-season weeks only. Career counts run 2023–2026; Coach of the Week and Bench Blunder count from 2026, when lineups began to be recorded.
- 2Coach of the Weeksince 2026
- 5Top Score2026: 0 this season
- 2Giant Killer2026: 0 this season
- 1Narrow Escape2026: 0 this season
- 1Heartbreaker2026: 0 this season
How the awards are decided
- Coach of the Week
- The best lineup choices of the week: the highest share of the best possible lineup (points scored divided by best-possible points, the Coach Rating already on Power Rankings, to one decimal). Ties on that figure are shared. Counted from 2026, because past lineups can't be rebuilt.
- Top Score
- The highest score of the week, to one decimal. Ties are shared.
- Giant Killer
- The biggest upset of the week, judged only on what was known before the game: where each team stood in the standings (record, then points scored). The winner must have gone in at least half a league’s worth of places below the loser (8 places in a 16-team league), and both teams need two games played, so it starts in Week 3. No projections of any kind.
- Narrow Escape
- The smallest winning margin of the week, to one decimal. Ties are shared.
- Bench Blunder
- The most points left on the bench: the best possible lineup minus the one started, to one decimal. Ties are shared. Counted from 2026.
- Heartbreaker
- The most points scored by a team that lost. Ties are shared.
Only regular-season weeks count. Playoff and consolation games never do.
Bench Blunder and Heartbreaker are the two friendly needles — drawn with a dashed ring, and meant in good humour rather than as a mark against anyone.
In 2026: Coach of the Week in weeks 5 and 6.
| Week W1 | Week W2 | Week W3 | Week W4 | Week W5 | Week W6 | Week W7 | Week W8 | Week W9 | Week W10 | Week W11 | Week W12 | Week W13 | Week W14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach of the Week2 in 2026 | ||||||||||||||
| Top Score0 in 2026 | ||||||||||||||
| Giant Killer0 in 2026 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Narrow Escape0 in 2026 | ||||||||||||||
| Bench Blunder0 in 2026 | ||||||||||||||
| Heartbreaker0 in 2026 |
= shared with another manager · – Giant Killer starts in Week 3: both teams need two games first
- Playoffs (2 of 3)
- 2-2
- Consolation (1 of 3)
- 2-3
Season by Season
| Season | Team | Record | Finish | Made Playoffs | Post-Season | Playoffs | Avg Pts | High Pts | Low Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Texas PuppiesIn progress | 4-5 | — | — | — | — | 104.9 | 131.2 | 53.1 |
| 2025roster ↓ | Texas Puppies | 8-6 | 3 | ✓ | 2-1 | 2-1 | 111.1 | 159.8 | 72.3 |
| 2024roster ↓ | Texas Puppies | 7-7 | 10 | — | 1-2 | 0-0 | 113.2 | 151.6 | 85.0 |
| 2023roster ↓ | Texas Puppies | 12-2 | 1 | ✓ | 1-2 | 0-1 | 120.5 | 167.5 | 80.9 |
Finish is the regular-season standing that year. Record and the points columns are the regular season only.
How the post-season splits. After the regular season this league runs a championship bracket and consolation ladders, so every team keeps playing. Made Playoffs means reaching the bracket. Playoffs is the bracket alone, while Post-Season counts bracket and consolation together — so a winning Post-Season record does not imply reaching the bracket. In the Post-Season box above, the two season counts split every season into one or the other: made the bracket, or did not. A team knocked out of the bracket then plays consolation games too, and those are included in the consolation record, which is why it can cover a season counted as a playoff appearance.
Draft Tendencies
Every draft Brenden Oliver has on record — 4 seasons. Value is measured against what the same position has returned in the same round across this league’s own finished drafts, so it reads as “better than that pick usually is” rather than as a reflection of which positions they happen to draft.
| Season | Picks | Autodrafted | 1st Rd | Draft Pts | vs Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 0(0%) drafted every pick | WR | 270.5 | — |
| 2025 | 15 | 0(0%) drafted every pick | RB | 2,245.5 | -107.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | 0(0%) drafted every pick | WR | 2,581.8 | +253.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | 0(0%) drafted every pick | WR | 2,323.7 | -138.2 |
When Brenden Oliver drafts each spot
Read it as a lineup card: QB2 is the second quarterback taken that year, and the round is the average across the drafts where one was taken at all. Slots taken only once are left out — a single draft is not a tendency.
| Slot | Avg round | Range | Drafts | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QB1 | 7.0 | R6–R8 | 4 | Jayden Daniels 2024 +122.4 | Justin Herbert 2025 +55.9 |
| QB2 | 10.3 | R8–R13 | 4 | Bryce Young 2024 -9.3 | J.J. McCarthy 2025 -108.0 |
| RB1 | 1.8 | R1–R2 | 4 | Joe Mixon 2024 +3.3 | Rhamondre Stevenson 2023 -91.5 |
| RB2 | 5.3 | R3–R9 | 4 | Zach Charbonnet 2023 +7.7 | James Conner 2025 -162.3 |
| RB3 | 9.5 | R6–R12 | 4 | Rico Dowdle 2024 +82.0 | Kaleb Johnson 2025 -109.6 |
| RB4 | 12.0 | R11–R14 | 3 | Rico Dowdle 2025 +150.5 | Jonathon Brooks 2024 -73.4 |
| WR1 | 1.8 | R1–R4 | 4 | Zay Flowers 2025 +56.1 | Cooper Kupp 2023 -92.8 |
| WR2 | 3.3 | R2–R5 | 4 | DJ Moore 2024 +56.9 | Matthew Golden 2025 -78.5 |
| WR3 | 6.5 | R3–R11 | 4 | Keenan Allen 2023 +97.7 | Brandon Aiyuk 2025 -93.7 |
| WR4 | 9.0 | R6–R13 | 4 | Nico Collins 2023 +102.5 | Adam Thielen 2025 -55.7 |
| WR5 | 11.7 | R9–R15 | 3 | Jameson Williams 2024 +97.8 | Quentin Johnston 2025 +89.3 |
| TE1 | 3.8 | R2–R5 | 4 | Trey McBride 2025 +102.3 | Evan Engram 2024 -65.4 |
| TE2 | 11.8 | R9–R13 | 4 | Luke Musgrave 2024 -24.3 | Luke Musgrave 2023 -42.0 |
| K1 | 12.0 | R9–R15 | 4 | Brandon Aubrey 2025 +46.8 | Chase McLaughlin 2024 +9.1 |
| D/ST1 | 12.5 | R8–R15 | 4 | Texans D/ST 2024 +45.8 | Bills D/ST 2025 +8.5 |
Weekly Lineups
Every week Brenden Oliver has played since lineups started being recorded, starters first and then the bench. Open a week to see who actually played. Covers 2026 — ESPN only serves a past season’s roster as that season’s final roster, so earlier years cannot be filled in.
2026 · Texas Puppies
End-of-Season Rosters
Who Brenden Oliver finished each season with, for the years before weekly lineups were recorded. ESPN only keeps a past season’s final roster, so these are a snapshot of the last day rather than a lineup from any particular week — and there are no points beside them, because a player’s total for the year counts whatever they scored for whoever else rostered them first.
3 seasons · newest first
2025 · Texas Puppies
Roster
| D/ST | Falcons D/ST |
| FLEX | Jaydon BlueRB |
| K | Brandon Aubrey |
| QB | Tanner McKee |
| RB | Ashton Jeanty |
| RB | Kenneth Gainwell |
| TE | Trey McBride |
| WR | Parker Washington |
| WR | Zay Flowers |
| BN | Jake FergusonTE |
| BN | Jalen CokerWR |
| BN | Jaylen WrightRB |
| BN | Justin HerbertQB |
| BN | Quentin JohnstonWR |
| BN | Woody MarksRB |
2024 · Texas Puppies
Roster
| D/ST | Bills D/ST |
| FLEX | Josh DownsWR |
| K | Brandon Aubrey |
| QB | Jayden Daniels |
| RB | Bucky Irving |
| RB | Rico Dowdle |
| TE | Brenton Strange |
| WR | DJ Moore |
| WR | Jaxon Smith-Njigba |
| BN | Brandin CooksWR |
| BN | Geno SmithQB |
| BN | Jalen CokerWR |
| BN | Joe MixonRB |
| BN | Raheem BlackshearRB |
| BN | Ray DavisRB |
| IR | CeeDee LambWR |
2023 · Texas Puppies
Roster
| D/ST | Raiders D/ST |
| FLEX | Zamir WhiteRB |
| K | Brandon Aubrey |
| QB | C.J. Stroud |
| RB | James Conner |
| RB | Tony Pollard |
| TE | Jake Ferguson |
| WR | Deebo Samuel |
| WR | Tyreek Hill |
| BN | Browns D/STD/ST |
| BN | Cooper KuppWR |
| BN | Geno SmithQB |
| BN | Jeff Wilson Jr.RB |
| BN | Jonnu SmithTE |
| BN | Keenan AllenWR |