Week 1 Statistical Review
Highest Graded Teams (Percentile Performance) 1. St. John's (100.0%) 2. Mount Union (100.0%) 3. Whitworth (100.0%) 4. Illinois Wesleyan...

Over-react or Under-react after Week 1
Inspired by this post by Stewart Mandel at The Athletic (may be behind a pay-wall), in which he broke down some of the major clashes of...

Projected 2017 Playoff Field
If you haven't read my Season Preview or looked at my Season Projections, that's fine, but I hate you. The cool thing about the...

Hansen's 2017 DIII Football Preview
Welcome to my season preview. First things first: I hope you enjoy what I'm doing here. I started out doing this just for myself, to...

Better Lucky than Good? Best to be Both
I'm pretty proud of the fact that I have the only DIII football computer rating system that adjusts its preseason ratings for the amount...

Coaching Changes, Talent Doesn't
Hey! Your alma mater team hired a new head coach! Spirits are high! The program's going to turn around (or maybe it's already good and...
Best Graduating Classes in DIII
A lot of Division III student-athletes got their degrees the last few weeks. Some of them won a lot of games. This post was inspired by a...

Most Offense- & Defense-Heavy Teams of 2016
I don't know if you know this, but some teams are better on offense than they are on defense, and vice-versa. How much better? Well,...
Conference Rankings (1998-2016)
Almost exactly a year ago, I made a post ranking DIII football conference from 1999-2015. Even before last season started, I tweaked my...

Hansen's Defensive All-Americans
It's notoriously hard to quantify the defensive efforts of a single players from stats alone, but I like a good challenge, and I didn't...