Sunday, April 28, 2019

NFL Empires: 1935

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, removing St. Louis and Cincinnati (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals"). No new teams were added this year.

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 1935 season:

Green Bay (green) beat the Chicago Bears (light blue) to gain the West, but they came in second place in the Western Division behind Detroit (purple), who won the championship game against the Eastern winners, New York (dark blue). That game was in Detroit, so New York kept their land. At the other end of the standings, all the teams with losing records have either one county or no land.

Here is the map before the season started:

Detroit does what Detroit does.

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