The RS Midseason Offensive Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the RS Midseason Offensive Player of the Year is and who runs it

Most fan-voted honours on this site follow the weekly beat: a publisher posts a fresh ballot every seven days, a new nominee list goes up, and the previous result is archived in a day. The RS Midseason Offensive Player of the Year does not work that way. Organizer RS built it as a single award that lands at the halfway point of the California high school football season, asking one question for the whole region: who has been the best offensive player through the first half of the year?

Crowdsignal at poll.fm carries the form, the same platform that hosts many newspaper and broadcaster polls, and the current ballot address is poll.fm/16094037. The mechanics are plain: a list of nominees, a radio button, a submit button, and live percentages beside each name once votes land. RS publishes the poll under the title asking who the midseason offensive player of the year is, and the ballot is open to any member of the public who visits the page.

The contrast with RS's weekly programs matters for anyone following the market. The organizer also fields a California High School Football Player of the Week vote, and that weekly cadence produces a rolling series of short, sharp contests. This midseason award produces one contest with a longer memory, where a nominee's standing reflects weeks of accumulated support rather than a single game.

Facts at a glance

The dated run of the award and what RS does not publish

This award's confirmed cycles land in two years: 2022 and 2025. The gap between them fits a midseason award that does not need to run on a rigid calendar, and the organizer's own naming, with midseason in the title, ties the vote to the rhythm of the football season rather than to a fixed calendar date. The evidence supports calling the program annual, with 2026 the next expected cycle, but RS publishes no forward schedule announcing when the next ballot will go live.

What the timing evidence does establish is the month. Both confirmed cycles fall in October, which places the vote at the midpoint of the fall high school season in California. The exact open and close dates within that month are a different matter: the ballot itself prints no dated window, and the organizer has not published start or end times anywhere accessible. For a current cycle, the live ballot is the only authority on whether voting is open, and the title line is where a closed poll announces itself.

RS also leaves structural questions unstated. The page publishes no category list beyond the single offensive award, no per-supporter limit on repeat voting and no eligibility rules for nominees; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That absence is not unusual for a Crowdsignal poll, where the host platform handles the form and the organizer often treats the ballot question itself as the whole rulebook. The practical consequence is that standings, dates and structure all live on one page, and that page is the ballot.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

The mechanic is about as simple as public voting gets. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal page at poll.fm, reads the nominee list, picks one player, and submits. Each nominee is shown with the school he represents, and in the most recent edition the field came from schools in Anderson, at Central Valley and at Shasta. The ballot therefore functions as a regional head-to-head, with each school's community able to see its player's share of the vote move as ballots land.

That visibility is the interesting part of the mechanic. Crowdsignal displays the running result beside each option, so a supporter does not vote into a black box. When the most recent edition closed, the page converted into a results display: a Shasta running back finished at 46 percent of 21,122 votes, with a Shasta offensive tackle at 41 percent on 19,056 votes, and the remaining nominees trailing behind. Those published totals are the organizer's own numbers, shown on the closed ballot.

For a nominee's camp, the practical playbook follows from the format. Because the poll shows live percentages, momentum is visible, and supporters who want to help typically share the ballot link through school communities, team parent groups and local fan pages. Anyone looking for structured ideas beyond word of mouth can work through our guide to getting more votes online, and for award-shaped ballots specifically our award votes overview sets out how these contests differ from straight popularity polls.

How this ballot sits beside its California neighbours

California carries an unusually crowded field of high school sports fan votes, and this program's neighbours help define what makes it distinct. RS's own weekly football ballot, the California High School Football Player of the Week, is the closest relative: same sport, same organizer's orbit, but a weekly reset. The midseason award instead accumulates over half a season, which changes the campaign dynamics, since a strong October week matters less than sustained support through the window.

The wider sibling set spans the seasonal calendar. The baseball and softball player of the week votes carry the spring sports, while the boys basketball and girls basketball ballots own the winter. Separately, the Fresno Bee Athlete of the Week shows how a named newspaper runs the same format under its own masthead, whereas this program runs under RS's shorter banner.

Two features set the midseason ballot apart within that crowd. First, it stands alone in this group as the one structured around a single seasonal question rather than a weekly series, so its result carries the weight of a season award. Second, its vote totals run to five figures, which is a different scale of engagement from a weekly ballot decided in the hundreds. That scale is why the program draws attention despite publishing less information than its neighbours, and why the closed ballot's own numbers remain the best available account of how each edition ended.