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Is Chris Olave for Zay Flowers fair?

Chris Olave and Zay Flowers have been on opposite sides of 31 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 3 of these deals exactly one side had to attach something extra, split 1 to 2 between the Chris Olave side and the Zay Flowers side. That is too close, and too small a sample, to call either player the more valuable.

31
Deals they were both in
0
Straight up, one for one
1 / 2
One side sweetened: Chris Olave / Zay Flowers

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 Chris Olave prices at 6,116 and Zay Flowers at 4,229, so the market currently rates Chris Olave about 1.4x 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 Chris OlaveWent with Zay Flowers
2026-07-14-32%Bhayshul Tuten, Gunnar Helm, Zachariah Branch, 1 moreD'Andre Swift, Bryce Young, Brenton Strange, 1 1st
2026-05-24+26%Mark Andrews, 1 1stCade Otton, 1 1st
2026-03-28+19%Kyle Monangai, D'Andre Swift, Jameson Williams, 1 1stAndrei Iosivas, Tuli Tuipulotu, James Cook, 1 2nd, 1 later pick
2025-10-30-44%Troy Franklin, 1 2ndDK Metcalf, 1 3rd
2025-08-13-18%1 2nd, 1 3rdGeno Smith
2025-07-20+14%Stefon DiggsDevin Neal, Oronde Gadsden
2025-06-11-9%1 later pick1 2nd
2025-06-10+24%Saquon BarkleyRJ Harvey, Chase Brown, 1 2nd, 1 3rd
2025-06-04-10%Ray Davis, Harold FanninSpencer Rattler, Tre' Harris
2025-01-12+2%Marvin Harrison, Malik Nabers, Joe Mixon, 2 moreCeeDee Lamb, James Cook, Kenneth Walker, 1 more, 1 later pick

Read each row as: Chris Olave, plus anything in the third column, was traded for Zay Flowers 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 Chris Olave; positive means that side came out ahead.

The whole-deal margin

Across all 31, the whole-deal value gap runs +19.6% from the side that received Chris Olave, so the side ending up with Chris Olave 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 Chris Olave for Zay Flowers 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 31 deals above are the record of what leagues actually agreed to when these two were on the table together.

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