  Imagine you are managing a football team and have a fixed budget for
salaries. Which players should you draft for your team? We investigated this
question using the wealth of data available from fantasy premier league
football (soccer). Using the players' data from past seasons, for several
seasons and several different budget constraints, we identified the highest
scoring fantasy team for each season subject to each budget constraint. We then
investigated quantifiable characteristics of these teams. Interestingly, across
nearly every variable that is significant to the game of football and the
budget, these top teams display diversity across these variables. Our results
indicate that diversity is a general feature of top performing teams.
