It’s a new and frozen year, and for the NPIFL’s beat writer, the sun is mostly an unwelcome guest that visits during working hours with a blindingly painful poke to the eyes.

With the sun having set not just on 2025 but on a season that saw a most unlikely winner rise from the ashes, the NPIFL’s humble journalist attempts to navigate the league’s inky gloom from an objective position.

Picture a late night and a low ceiling fogged by cigarette smoke; near-empty glasses of ale, Czech lager, single malts, and a pretentious brandy or two. Tomorrow’s hangover will be met with vials of ivory and colored glass unstoppered, along with unguents, powders and liquids. Doubtles all to no avail.

But imagine the struggle of your humble narrator as he attempts to detach himself from a season of near misses and disappointments; he forces a fake smile for now-2x Super Bowl-winning HC Jordan Clough.

Clough managed to some-way, somehow rise like the proverbial phoenix and smite the No. 1 seed Brymbo Originals twice in two weeks before taking down the 3-seeded Padres in the Super Bowl to take his second championship in three years in the NPIFL.

In keeping with our kayfabe timeline, headlines filled the newspapers of the world after such an unlikely run of form to glory; the Scary Team had only an 11% chance of making the playoffs in Week 14; theirs was truly a victory for the ages.

The JST were 1-4 to start the season, they were then 3-6, and somehow finished 8-7 before winning out in the postseason.

Let that sink in boys and girls – No matter how dark the night, the dawn can see a parahelion rise like at Mortimer’s Cross in February 1461.

“Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?” – Nathan Adams to Damen Griffiths (probably)

But today is not about the Scary team, atmospheric ice crystals nor medieval battlefields. … or is it? Most days are for your humble chronicler.

But nay, we gather here today to look at how accurate the NPIFL’s loremaster, O’s HC Nathan Adams, truly is at studying the movements of the planets and navigating not just the weave of time but the prophecies of the old texts.

However, before we do so, Andrasta would like to remember a particular moment in time where one manager felt he had the right to mock our champion, albeit as collateral in a larger scheme.

Andrasta would love Leviathans HC tom Lloyd to kindly explain the pecking order for the offseason; perhaps NZ isn’t far away enough for Lloyd to hide his shame?

Anyway, below is the league as per Nathan’s Pix (Note: Nathan did pretty well off the NIU’s no-show for half the 2025 season); Nathan went 51-37 on the year, with a perfect 6-0 in Week 6) and is an all-time 92-86.

Is Nathan as objective as he likes to pretend, or does he indeed have favorites?

Nathan’s Pix 2025 NPIFL Table

Here is the 2025 NPIFL season as per Brymbo O’s HC Nathan Adams:

Tiebreakers are by H2H as per Nathan’s Pix (*Kelce swept JST 2-0)

Actual 2025 NPIFL Table

Source material in all it’s glory can be found in the spreadsheet: