In the National Basketball Association (NBA), there are 30 teams making up the Western and Eastern conference. Similarly in Major League Baseball (MLB), in which each team plays 162 games in the regular season, there are just 30 teams in the American National League combine. The only other sports leagues that are comparable or bigger are some of the football leagues in South American such as in Mexico and Brazil. However, the combination of size and economic value make the English football league system arguably the biggest in the world. For this reason, the importance of the English