Thursday, May 09, 2019

NFL Empires: 1938

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).

There were no changes to the teams between seasons, so the 1938 map starts where 1937 ended.

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 1938 season:

Everyone gets some land! New York (dark blue) won the championship game over Green Bay (light green), although the game was in New York, so Green Bay held their land. Green Bay had an early losses to the Chicago Bears (light blue) and Detroit (purple), but managed to gain most of it back later in the season. The other big landholder, Washington (gold), second place in the East, had an early draw with Brooklyn (medium blue), who promptly lost to Pittsburgh (yellow), who finished with a 2-9 record, so that spread the land around nicely.

Here is the map before the season started:

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