Wednesday, April 10, 2019

NFL Empires: 1929

This is a continuation of my "empire" maps (where victors take the territory of the losers) of the NFL. Different than most such imperialism 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 tenth season of the NFL, starting where the previous season ended and removing Detroit and the Yankees (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals"), moving Pottsville to Boston, and adding Buffalo and others (given 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 1929 season:

Once again, Dayton (medium blue) held onto their territory by never playing at home. They finished in last place, winless. The victors were Green Bay (green), and their empire matches reality. The Chicago Bears (light blue) had a horrible second half of the season (no wins in their last nine games, including seven at home) and thus fell off the map entirely.

Here is the map before the season started:

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