[Insanity000]

Because of such a dense population of teams in NYC i would propose NYC being their own district, or maybe even combine with New Jersey. This solves many issues for the NYC Long Island teams like travel cost, distance etc. For venues though im not quite sure how well that would work out but im sure it could be figured out.

As for upstate teams, why not have them join with a smaller state/state with less teams to create a district. For example i don't believe upstate alone has enough teams to be a district and neither do many of the surrounding team. If upstate combined with Pennsylvania, Ohio, or west Virginia that would be enough for a district.