SBLive Central Florida Softball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SBLive Central Florida Softball Player of the Year ballot is

This award closes the softball season for SBLive's Central Florida: a fan-voted honor for high school softball in Central Florida, Florida. It is run by SBLive's Central Florida, the publisher's regional high school sports operation, and the voting runs on Crowdsignal, whose ballot address is poll.fm/13922969. The live ballot sits there under the title Vote: Who should be SBLive's Central Florida Softball Player of the Year?

The award covers softball alone. SBLive's Central Florida also runs weekly player-of-the-week ballots in other sports for the same region, which is why this page exists beside them rather than instead of them. The softball award differs from those weekly ballots in cadence: it arrives at the end of the season rather than every week, and it names a player of the year rather than a player of the week.

The nominees are high school softball players from schools across the region. SBLive's staff selects the field before the ballot opens, so a supporter's job on the page is to choose among an already-nominated list. For the 2025 award the publisher nominated 21 players after looking at schools in multiple counties, and an earlier edition presented 15 candidates for consideration.

The dated facts: editions, the 2025 close and what is not printed

2023 and 2024 are the confirmed years for the softball award. The 2024 ballot fell in June, which is when the publisher's softball season wrap-up vote went live that year. A 2025 cycle followed, and its voting window carried a printed close: voting ended Sunday, Aug. 3, at 11:59 p.m. PT sharp, with the winner to be announced online afterward.

The 2025 cycle also has a documented nomination phase. SBLive's Central Florida stated that it looked at schools in multiple counties and nominated 21 players for the 2025 award honoring Central Florida high school softball, so the field is chosen by the publisher before any fan votes are cast. An earlier edition of the ballot presented 15 candidates for consideration, which shows the publisher has varied the size of the list between cycles rather than fixing it.

The publisher has printed nothing about the shape of the next cycle. No opening day, no nominee roster and no closing date for the 2026 softball ballot appear anywhere on the organizer's pages; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same holds for whether the award keeps its August close or shifts, since the 2024 edition ran in June while the 2025 vote closed in August.

For a supporter planning around the award, the practical reading is that the window is a late-spring to summer event tied to the softball season, and the exact dates belong to the ballot page for that year rather than to a fixed calendar the publisher republishes.

How a supporter votes on the softball ballot today

Voting is a straightforward public poll on Crowdsignal. A supporter opens poll.fm/13922969, where the ballot is titled Vote: Who should be SBLive's Central Florida Softball Player of the Year? The nominated players are listed with their positions and schools, and each name carries a selectable option beside it.

Choosing a player and submitting logs the choice. There is no nomination round for the supporter to pass through, because SBLive's staff has already nominated the field; the 2025 cycle's 21 nominees were selected by the publisher before the ballot opened. The supporter's entire role is picking among the listed names.

The organizer's stated rule on frequency is unusually open. SBLive's Central Florida describes the corresponding poll as intended to be fun, with no restriction placed on vote frequency during the competition. That sentence is the publisher's own printed position, and it is the only frequency rule this ballot carries.

The ballot does not state that an account is required, and nothing on the page describes a login step. If Crowdsignal adds a verification step for the current cycle, it would appear on the ballot itself. The nominee names are not reproduced on this reference page because they are high school athletes; the live ballot at poll.fm/13922969 is where the current list, with schools and positions, is printed.

How the softball award sits beside SBLive's other Central Florida ballots

SBLive's Central Florida runs a family of fan ballots for the region, and the softball honor is the season-ending member of that family. The weekly siblings cover other sports: the Central Florida Flag Football Player of the Week, the Central Florida High School Baseball Player of the Week, the Central Florida High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the Central Florida High School Football Player of the Week, the Central Florida High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week and the Central Florida High School Girls Flag Football Player of the Week.

The difference is cadence and scope. Each weekly ballot names a player of the week during that sport's season, while the softball award names a player of the year after the season ends. Both kinds run on the same publisher's regional operation and both are public fan votes, so a supporter who knows the weekly format already understands the softball ballot's mechanics.

For the region's softball community, this is the ballot that closes the season, and it is the only softball award in the publisher's Central Florida lineup. Supporters of spring-sport athletes who also follow fall and winter sports will find the same poll.fm format on the weekly football and basketball ballots, with the same open frequency rule the publisher applies to its fun-poll framing.

Strengthening support for a nominee on this ballot

Because SBLive's Central Florida places no restriction on vote frequency, the most direct way to strengthen a nominee is repeat visits to the poll.fm ballot combined with sharing the link. The publisher's own framing, that the poll is intended to be fun, means ordinary enthusiastic voting is exactly what the ballot is designed for.

Sharing works well here because the nominee list is school-anchored: each player is listed with her school, so a school's community has an obvious reason to pass the ballot around. Team accounts, booster groups and local softball pages are the natural channels, and the ballot link is short enough to post anywhere.

What the organizer's pages do not address is outside assistance beyond ordinary voting, so anything beyond manual repeat voting and sharing rests on the general rules question rather than on a printed softball-ballot policy. Tactics that apply across public fan votes, including timing and outreach patterns, are covered at the get-more-votes guide, and the general question of purchased support is treated at the award-votes page.