The Post Boys Basketball Midseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What The Post's midseason boys basketball award is and who runs it

The Post Boys Basketball Midseason Player of the Year lets Florida high school boys basketball fans decide a midseason honor, published by The Post. The defining feature is timing. Most player-of-the-year honors in high school sports are decided after the season ends, but this ballot opens at the midpoint of the basketball season, which places it in January while district play is still underway.

Crowdsignal, the polling service behind poll.fm, carries the vote, and the ballot for the 2026 cycle sits at https://poll.fm/16511589. The mechanic is a plain public vote: any supporter who opens the page can pick a nominee and submit a selection, with no nomination round printed separately on the ballot itself. Nominees appear with their class year and school, drawn from high school boys basketball programs around the state.

The facts that define the program are these:

Because the ballot is statewide rather than tied to a single county or conference, the nominee list in any given cycle can mix players from very different programs, which is part of what makes the midseason vote competitive.

The dated history of this midseason award

This award has confirmed runs in 2022, 2025 and 2026. No edition is confirmed for 2023 or 2024, so the timeline shows a gap between the first run and the recent pair. The 2025 and 2026 ballots, both hosted in the January window, are what mark the program as annual.

The 2026 voting window is the best-documented cycle. Coverage promoting the ballot stated it directly: "Voting will remain open until noon on Wednesday, January 21." That close date falls in the middle of the Florida high school basketball season, consistent with the midseason framing of the award.

The closed 2026 poll also preserved its result. The final tally showed a 58% to 42% split between the top two finishers, with the remaining nominees trailing behind, giving supporters a clear account of how the vote resolved.

What The Post has not printed is the rest of the picture: an opening date for the 2026 ballot, the nominee roster for the next cycle, and any rule about how many ballots one person may submit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The absence of a printed per-supporter rule is worth taking seriously, because weekly fan polls and midseason awards often handle repeat voting differently, and nothing on this ballot says which approach applies.

How a supporter votes in the midseason poll today

Taking part on poll.fm takes only a moment. To cast a ballot, a supporter opens the page for The Post's midseason honor, reads through the nominees, picks the option next to one player and presses the button to log the choice. The 2026 ballot presented five nominees, each listed with a class year, such as Jr., So. or Sr., and a school, so a supporter could weigh a junior against a senior or a sophomore before committing.

Right now the poll at poll.fm/16511589 displays a closed status, because the January 2026 window has ended and the final tally is on display. When the next edition goes live, the same ballot address is expected to carry the fresh vote, which is how the 2025 and 2026 editions were reached.

Two practical consequences follow from this format. First, each submission carries a single selection, so there is no slate of categories to work through, unlike a readers-choice survey with dozens of fields. Second, the page does not say whether any verification step applies to a submission, so a supporter cannot know in advance whether a second visit counts. Both points make timing matter: with a midday close on a Wednesday in January, support gathered the evening before carries more weight than support gathered after the poll has shut.

How this ballot sits beside its Florida siblings

The clearest way to place this program is against the six sibling ballots published for Florida on the same site. All six are Central Florida player-of-the-week programs: 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.

Three differences stand out. Geography: the siblings are Central Florida ballots, while this midseason award is a statewide Florida vote. Cadence: the siblings refresh weekly through their sports' seasons, while this ballot is a single January window per edition. Scope: the siblings honor one week's performance, while this award names a midseason player of the year, a claim about half a season rather than seven days.

For a supporter, those differences change the strategy. A weekly poll rewards a fast push inside a few days; a midseason award with a noon close on January 21 gives a longer runway but a hard stop, and the 58% to 42% final margin in 2026 shows the result can stay competitive right to the end.

Strengthening support in a short January window

Everything about this ballot rewards early organization. The window sits in January, the 2026 close came at noon on a Wednesday, and each submission carries one selection, so a campaign that waits for the final day has little room to work. The practical play is to line up the team community, the school's parent network and the player's classmates before the ballot opens, then send the poll.fm link with a clear instruction on which nominee to select.

Because The Post has printed nothing about repeat visits or outside help for this poll, no supporter can assume unlimited returns are permitted, and a push that reads as manufactured activity can damage the credibility of the result. The honest framing is that this poll costs nothing to enter and the organizer's written rules are thin. Readers weighing paid support can review award vote options and the legality overview at is buying votes legal, both of which describe the general landscape rather than making promises about this ballot.