MINORS: Building Successful Farm Systems (Shallow Formats)

The dog days of summer mean different things for different keeper-league owners. If you are in contention for your league title, you have exhausted every avenue to lock up a league championship like making trades to solidify weaknesses and scouring the waiver wire to find depth on your bench. For the other 75%-to-90% of fantasy owners, you're out of contention. You've made trades to acquire younger players/draft picks and you're glued to the waiver wires trying to find the right pieces to bring your team back to contention next season. 

Today begins a two-part series on how to build a successful farm system. We will consider two different format types, shallow formats allowing up to five available slots for prospects and deeper formats...

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