Thursday, April 25, 2019

NFL Empires: 1934

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, moving Portsmouth to Detroit (distributing the most distant third of their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals", but gaining land around Detroit like a new team) and adding St. Louis midway through the season (gaining a 100-mile radius, except only halfway to a "capital" city of the land the new team is taking) as a replacement for Cincinnati, who was suspended. Cincinnati has already lost all their land by that time.

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 1934 season:

It's all Chicago Bears (light blue), who were the Western Division champions. New York (dark blue) won the Eastern Division and the championship game (in New York, so they didn't gain any of Chicago's land). Chicago had beaten New York in New York on week 10, so New York actually lost land this season.

Here is the map before the season started (note a lack of St. Louis):

The Bears dominate.

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