Monday, March 25, 2019

NFL Empires: 1924

This continues my "empire" maps (where victors take the territory of the losers) of the NFL. Different than most such imperial sports maps, instead of gaining all the loser's land from a victory home or away, the victor only gets territory for an away victory, and just two-thirds of it (or one-third for an away tie).

This is the fifth season of the NFL, starting where the previous season ended and removing Canton and others which folded or took a hiatus (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals") and adding new teams with new territory (taking a 100-mile radius, except only halfway to a "capital" city of the land the new team is taking).

My data was from Pro Football Reference and most of the logos from Sports Ecyclopedia and SportsLogos.net.

Here then is the map of the NFL empires after the 1924 season:

Duluth (violet) look like champions here, but they actually came in fourth. Cleveland (dark sage green) won in real life but barely made a dent on this map. They only played away twice: a draw at Frankford (tan) and a win at Akron (pale green). Meanwhile, Columbus (orange) also gained a lot of land, despite a 4-4 record.

Here is the map before the season started:

Alas, poor Minneapolis.

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