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More pointlessness (NHL)

Macon GA Panthers

New Orleans Lightning, yeah baby

Arkansas Stars

Bloomington IN Predators

Wichita Blues

Kingsport TN Hurricanes, aw hell yeah

Roanoke Capitals, consonance

State College Flyers, "fliers" (i.e. leaflets...nvm)

Jersey City Rangers

Montauk Islanders

Toms River Devils

Saratoga Springs NY Bruins, no way
Utica Senators, Roman theme

Johnstown NY Canadiens

Syracuse Sabres, aight

Erie Penguins, yawn

London Maple Leafs, yawn

Akron Blue Jackets, yawn

Fort Wayne Red Wings, Komets is better

Cedar Rapids Blackhawks, yawn

Bridger SD Wild, I've been here (on the Cheyenne River Lakota Reservation)

Regina Jets, consonance wins again
Miles City MT Avalanche, never been here tho

Kamloops Oilers

Twin Falls Flames

Boise Canucks

North Bonneville Salt Flats Sharks, k

South Bonneville Salt Flats Kings, there is no other way

Las Vegas Ducks

Roswell Coyotes

...and that's it.

MLonStrosity:

Real Regina (SK), no

Swift Current Whitecaps, gross
Missoula (MT) Zounders, get it?

Winnemucca (NV) Timbers, as if Winnemucca had trees

Warm Springs (middle of nowhere, Nevada) Earthquakes

Fort Apache (AZ) Galaxy, cool

Rápidos Ciudad Juárez, yes

Sporting Guymon (OK), Sporting Gijon

FC Tupelo (MS), fer Dallas

Sinaloa Dynamo, A+

Columbia City SC, "SC" for "soccer club" & "South Carolina," "Orlando City SC"
Flint Fire, nice

Jackson (TN) Crew, moving along
Pittsburgh United, DC United
State College (PA) Union, cool
Elmira Red Bulls, lol

Toms River (NJ) City, LLWS champs
Rome (NY) FC, TFC

Albany Revolution, could work, but New England wouldn't want their affiliate in NY

Schenectady (NY) Impact, Schenectady is too close to Albany anyway
 

Honorable Mentions:

Fort Apache Galaxy

Sinaloa Dynamo

Columbia City SC
State College Union

I mentioned the Voronoi tool for devising mid-points among multiple points on a map here. Here is a link to a useful online Voronoi tool.

All cities are approximated midpoints among parent cities. For example, a midpoint between Seattle, Oakland, and Denver is Twin Falls, Idaho, therefore, one of these three teams will have a minor league affiliate in Twin Falls, Idaho (Boise).

Pacific Coast League
Western Division 
Medford Mariners

Boise Giants
Bonneville Salt Flats (UT) Dodgers

Bonneville Salt Flats (UT) Angels

Lake Havasu City (CA) Padres

Roswell Diamondbacks

Dodge City Rangers
Regina (SK) Rockies
"Area 51" (NV) Athletics

Southern Division 

Jackson (MS) Astros

Little Rock (AR) Royals

Campeche (Mexico) Marlins

New Orleans Rays

Nashville Braves

Blacksburg (VA) Nationals

Greenville (MS) Cardinals

International League:
Western Division

Chamberlain (SD) Twins

Grand Rapids (MI) Brewers

Cedar Rapids Cubs

Davenport (IA) White Sox

Fort Wayne (IN) Tigers

Terre Haute (IN) Reds

Eastern Division

Erie (PA) Pirates

Athens (OH) Indians

London (ON) Blue Jays

Storrs (CT) Red Sox

Princeton Phillies

Watertown (NY) Yankees

Altoona (PA) Orioles

Elmira (NY) Mets

I think I'll do this for the MLS next

pmoehrin, I think the Voronoi function could help you recognize the "mid-lines" between geographical points on a map.

This is the best online interactive Voronoi map plot tool. I use it all the time. Just plot each point to represent each MLB team (turn off "Delaunay triangulation" and "Convex hull") to see "Voronoi neighborhoods." And then place each minor league team within each MLB team's neighborhood.

I use this site for a lot of things. Really helps me visualize boundaries on a map.

EDIT: scroll down below the map to see settings (Delaunay triangulation, Convex hull, and Voronoi neighborhoods).

The Missouri Mavericks (ECHL, New York Islanders) are on track to have the best regular season record in the 28-year history of the ECHL. If Missouri win 19 more points in their remaining 13 games, they will break the record.

Season (Games Played); Team; Points; (Points/GP)*72:
1. 2015-16 (60*); Missouri Mavericks; 99; 118.8
2. 2001-02 (72); Louisiana IceGators; 116; 116.0

3. 2007-08 (72); Cincinnati Cyclones; 115; 115.0
4. 2007-08 (72); Texas Wildcatters; 115; 115.0
5. 2005-06 (72); Alaska Aces; 113; 113.0

6. 2005-06 (72); Las Vegas Wranglers; 112; 112.0

7. 1999-00 (70); Florida Everblades; 108; 111.1

8. 1990-91 (64); Knoxville Cherokees; 97; 109.1

9. 1998-99 (70); Pee Dee Pride; 106; 109.0

10. 1995-96 (70); Richmond Renegades; 105; 108.0
...
613. 1992-93 (64); Roanoke Valley Rampage; 29; 32.6
 

AHL-ECHL call-ups/-downs must be less frequent than NHL-AHL call-ups/-downs. Otherwise, the California AHL teams would still be in the ECHL...

Also explains why ECHL affiliations are so far from their AHL and NHL affiliates

Why isn't geographical proximity an issue for NHL and AHL affiliates in the ECHL?

The Missouri Mavs are affiliated with Bridgeport (Connecticut) in the AHL and the New York Islanders in the NHL.

Were the Mavs chosen as the Islanders' ECHL affiliate purely because they share the same color scheme?

Link to ECHL/NHL/AHL affiliation table

Wichita, Alaska, and Colorado are the only ECHL teams without NHL-AHL affiliations (all other ECHL teams have both NHL and AHL affiliations–have "one-to-one" affiliation agreements).

ECHL - AHL - NHL (geographically disparate affiliates in bold)
Salt Lake City - San Diego - Anaheim
Atlanta - Providence - Boston
Independence, MO - Bridgeport - Brooklyn
Elmira - Rochester - Buffalo

Glens Falls - Stockton - Calgary
Indianapolis - Rockford - Chicago

Kalamazoo - Cleveland - Columbus

Boise - Austin - Dallas

Fort Wayne - San Antonio - Denver
Toledo - Grand Rapids - Detroit

Norfolk - Bakersfield - Edmonton

Rapid City - Springfield, MA - Glendale
Manchester - Ontario, CA - Los Angeles
Brampton - St. John's - Montreal 

Cincinnati - Milwaukee - Nashville

Greenville, SC - Hartford - Manhattan
NONE - Albany - Newark, NJ
Evansville - Binghamton - Ottawa

Reading - Allentown - Philadelphia

Wheeling - Wilkes-Barre - Pittsburgh

Estero, FL - Charlotte - Raleigh
Allen, TX - San Jose - San Jose

NONE - Rosemont, IL - St. Louis
Moline, IL - Des Moines - St. Paul

NONE - Syracuse - St. Petersburg, FL

NONE - Portland, ME - Sunrise, FL

Orlando - Toronto - Toronto
NONE - Utica - Vancouver
Charleston, SC - Hershey - Washington, DC
Tulsa - Winnipeg - Winnipeg
Anchorage - NONE - NONE

Loveland, CO - NONE - NONE

Wichita - NONE - NONE

Just eye-balling the geographical proximity between affiliations I notice that there could definitely be a re-arranging (why isn't Allen–and not Boise–the ECHL affiliate of the Texas/Dallas Stars?)

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If the MLB decides to realign, this is exactly the way I want them to do it.

EDIT: Adding Portland (AL West) and Montreal (NL East) would even out the leagues and are the two cities most likely to get teams in the near future. And supposing MLB would want 8 divisions of 4 teams:

 

American League:

East (8 teams): perhaps the division that best fits into two "familiar" geographical divisions

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

New York Yankees

Tampa Bay Rays

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers

Toronto Blue Jays

West (8 teams): eliminate the two time-zone difference between Texas teams and divisional opponents

Kansas City Royals

Minnesota Twins

Houston Astros

Texas Rangers

Los Angeles Angels

Oakland Athletics

Seattle Mariners
*Portland Lazers/Razors (i.e. "Blazers")

National League: there is no other way to go about this in this division...truly sorry
East (8 teams): 

Atlanta Braves

Miami Marlins

Washington Nationals

Cincinnati Reds

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Montreal Expats (i.e. "Expos," having "returned home from abroad")

West (8 teams): welp

Chicago Cubs

St. Louis Cardinals

Milwaukee Brewers

Colorado Rockies

Arizona Diamondbacks

Los Angeles Dodgers

San Diego Padres

San Francisco Giants

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American League:

East (8 teams):

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers

New York Yankees

Tampa Bay Rays

Toronto Blue Jays

 

West (7 teams):

Houston Astros

Kansas City Royals

Los Angeles Angels

Minnesota Twins

Oakland Athletics

Seattle Mariners

Texas Rangers

 

National League:
East (7 teams):

Atlanta Braves

Cincinnati Reds

Miami Marlins

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Washington Nationals

 

West (8 teams):

Arizona Diamondbacks

Chicago Cubs

Colorado Rockies

Los Angeles Dodgers

Milwaukee Brewers

San Diego Padres

San Francisco Giants

St. Louis Cardinals

 

Uh, this is amazing. It even leaves open Western expansion (American League) and Eastern expansion (National League). And it doesn't break up anything...

Do you think the wild card game is at risk? I kind of like that a team that doesn't win its division has to burn their ace in the wild card game for the first game of the LDS.

Anyone remember when the "Russian Penguins" and the "Soviet Wings" played every team in the IHL for a season? That's common practice in the Slovak elite league and the "Russian AHL" (the "VHL") in which the national junior teams play every other team and the points count in the standings.

In the VHL, teams play 48 games per regular season in arenas that hold between 1,500 and 6,000, from Eastern Siberia to Kazakhstan all amid the up-and-down Russian petro-ruble.

Next season a team from Beijing will join the KHL.

It is asking a lot to create a minor league to keep the same geographical format as the major league. Not even Major League Baseball is able to create a single AAA league (the International League is made up of Eastern teams and the Pacific Coast League is made up of Western teams).

Is the only hindrance to creating a single league geography? Travel costs? Bus trips? How long can a bus trip be relative to the salary of an average player on the team? Maybe airfare is cheaper when traveling from cities within Russia...then again, how will Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk afford flights to play divisional opponent Team Beijing?

I assume the reason why the California teams were granted a 68-game regular season and a PPG-based playoff format was because the other teams in the AHL didn't want to play in California just as much as the California teams didn't want to play outside of California.

Otherwise, why would the AHL have given the California teams everything they asked for?

On the shorter season for Pacific Coast hockey teams in the AHL:

Teams from California (BAK, STK, ONT, SD, and SJ) will play 68 games this season.
Teams from everywhere else (including the St. John's IceCaps) will play 76 games this season.
– a difference of 8 games, which is also slightly below the number of shootout-ending games each non-California team in the AHL is on track to play (9)–California teams are on track to play 8.

If non-California AHL teams reduce their schedule to 68 games next year, each team will eliminate one shootout game per season.
 

The AHL playoffs in the Western Conference are determined by Points Per Game, which gives points for shootout wins (2) and losses (1) and for overtime losses (2), which is not unfair because all teams play under this condition for playoff inclusion.

The only area of unbalanced scheduling will be in the Calder Cup Finals, when the conference champions play each other...but the eight-game difference in regular season schedules might have already been made up in the playoffs themselves: If the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, who played 76 games in the regular season swept their three opponents in the playoffs, they will have played 88 games before Game 1 of the Calder Cup. If the Stockton Thunder win the Western Conference and played three Game Sevens in the playoffs, they'll have played 89 games (68 regular season games and 21 playoff games).