Friday, March 29, 2019

NFL Empires: 1925

This is a continuation of 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 sixth season of the NFL, starting where the previous season ended and removing teams which folded or took a hiatus (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals") and adding the New York Giants and other 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 1925 season:

After a dismal first season, Kansas City (dark teal) conquered wide swaths of land this year. But they actually finished 13th out of 20 teams. The official champions were the Chicago Cardinals (magenta), whose only away game was a tie against the cross-town Bears. Hence, not much territory here.

Here is the map before the season started:

Ah, Duluth. At least you have more land than Milwaukee.

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