NFL Empires: 1946

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).

The map started where the previous season ended, but Cleveland moved to Los Angeles. I distributed the most distant third of their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals". (They would have also gained a 100-mile-radius area around Los Angeles, but they already had that land.)

My data was from Pro Football Reference and most of the logos from SportsLogos.net and Sports Ecyclopedia.

Here then is the map of the NFL empires after the 1946 season:

Los Angeles (red) didn't do so well in their new home, losing their first game to Philadelphia (dark green). The Chicago Bears (light blue) won the Western Division, but lost the next-to-last game to the Chicago Cardinals (magenta). The Bears then beat New York (dark blue) in New York for the championship. But since New York had lost land to Boston (cyan) and Los Angeles near the end of the season, not much land was up for grabs in the championship game. The Cardinals, who look like they won this map, came in fourth place in the five-team West.

Here is the map before the season started:

Look at all the bright colors!