Who should be the Huntsville Times Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Huntsville Times Player of the Week poll is and who runs it

This page is about a single program: Who should be the Huntsville Times Player of the Week, a reader-voted high school sports poll tied to the Huntsville, Alabama market. The organizer is The Birmingham News, an Alabama newspaper whose operation is associated with al.com. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal's poll widget, which readers reach through the poll.fm domain, and the working address for the current poll is https://poll.fm/16282315. The vertical is sport, and the mechanic is a simple reader tally: whoever collects the most reader support in a round takes the weekly honor for that round.

The program name points at the Huntsville Times, the masthead under which the publisher frames this particular poll, while the organizing newsroom sits in Birmingham. That combination, a Birmingham-based paper running a poll branded for Huntsville readers, is what defines the market: the ballot speaks to high school football, basketball and baseball communities around Huntsville rather than to the publisher's home city alone.

A few anchor facts sit in a single place here for easy quoting:

Everything else a reader might want, from the nominee slate to the closing time of the current round, lives on the live poll page itself.

The dated history of the Huntsville Times Player of the Week

Two seasons stand as confirmed for this program: 2023 and 2025. The 2025 season is documented through ten ballots on the poll.fm series, dated across September, October and November of that year, which is why the working window for the poll is described as September through November. No precise open or close date for any weekly round is printed with the ballot, and the publisher has not attached a nomination schedule either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Because the poll is weekly in shape, the season is best read as a run of short voting rounds rather than a single long campaign. The 2023 edition shows the program existed before the 2025 season, and the space between those confirmed years means no continuous schedule has been published. The next expected cycle is 2026, based on the program's own recurrence pattern.

What the publisher has left off the page matters just as much for anyone planning support around a round. There is no published category list beyond the player-of-the-week question itself, no printed per-supporter limit, and no eligibility text attached to the ballot. Those gaps are common for a newspaper poll on Crowdsignal, but they mean a supporter working to a deadline should treat the live page, not any summary, as the authority on when a round closes and on what the rules actually are.

How a supporter votes on the Huntsville Times ballot today

Voting in this poll is deliberately simple because it runs on Crowdsignal's standard poll widget. A supporter opens the ballot at https://poll.fm/16282315, reads the question, Who should be the Huntsville Times Player of the Week, and sees the current slate of nominees, each listed with the high school the athlete represents. The supporter selects the button beside a nominee and presses the Vote button. Once a choice is submitted, the View Results link shows the running tally so a supporter can see where the round stands.

That is the entire mechanic: a single page, a single question, a single click. No account requirement is described on the ballot and no login wall sits in front of the widget, which matters for supporters who rally a school community on short notice during a weekly round. The same poll.fm address works from a phone or a desktop, so a link shared in a parent group or a team chat lands every reader on the identical ballot.

The format also suggests two cautions. A fresh ballot appears for each weekly round during the September through November season, so a link saved from an earlier week may point at a closed poll, and the current round is always the one the publisher is promoting that week. The slate changes from round to round as well, so a nominee who appeared last week may not appear this week. Supporters should confirm the current slate before rallying a school community around a name.

How the Huntsville Times poll sits beside its Alabama siblings

This poll does not sit alone in Alabama. The same publisher ecosystem supports a family of high school ballots naming weekly and yearly standouts across the state, and each runs as a separate program with a separate route on this site. The neighbours are the Alabama High School Baseball Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year, the Alabama High School Football Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Football Player of the Year, and the Alabama High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week.

What makes the Huntsville Times poll different is its framing. The sibling programs are named for the whole state, while this single ballot is branded around a particular city's sports community and carries the Huntsville Times masthead. A reader in Huntsville following football season may therefore meet both kinds of ballot in the same autumn: the statewide football poll and this local alternative, each carrying its own nominees and its own web address.

For supporters, the practical difference is focus. A vote here is a vote in a Huntsville-framed contest against a short slate of area schools, not against the talent pool of the entire state. That can make weekly rounds feel winnable for a school that would be a long shot in a statewide field, which is exactly why local player-of-the-week polls draw such committed community voting. Every sibling program is also listed in the related contests section below for readers who want to compare the fields.

Building support in a weekly Huntsville poll

Support in a weekly poll is a sprint, not a long campaign. Because each round on the Huntsville Times ballot runs for a limited span inside the September through November season, the useful moves are the fast ones: circulate the poll.fm address among team families, post it in the school's parent groups the day the slate goes up, and ask supporters to vote early rather than waiting for a final-hours surge. The ballot carries no printed statement about outside mobilization, so the reasonable assumption is that ordinary community outreach is what a public poll is designed for. Anyone weighing paid support can read how vote packages are structured on our award votes page, and the site's overview of getting more votes online covers outreach tactics that fit a weekly format. The legal position for polls like this one is summarized on the legality page.