Monday, April 22, 2019

NFL Empires: 1933

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).

I started where the previous season ended, removed Staten Island (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals"), and adding Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati (gaining 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 1933 season:

The fall of Green Bay! The Chicago Bears (light blue) won the championship as the winners of the West conference, beating New York (dark blue) in the championship game. Brooklyn (medium blue) came in second in the East, but only managed to gain a slice of west Texas. Teams were still playing unequal schedules, ranging from nine to fourteen games. Brooklyn played four fewer games than New York, with six of Brooklyn's ten games at home.

Here is the map before the season started:

Green begone.

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