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

What the Midseason Football Player of the Year is and who runs it

Run by The Post, a Florida newspaper, the Midseason Football Player of the Year honors a high school football player at the midpoint of the season. The paper nominates the players; the community decides. The form sits at poll.fm, Crowdsignal's balloting host, at the address https://poll.fm/16092697.

The nominee list makes the market concrete. The 2025 ballot drew players from schools in Jupiter, Royal Palm Beach and Pahokee, among other Florida communities, mixing schools from several towns into one field. That breadth is the point of a midseason honor: rather than a single school's fan base deciding, the whole readership of the paper's football coverage votes across the region.

The mechanic is a straightforward community vote. A supporter pulls up the poll.fm form, sees the nominated players listed with their class years and schools, selects one, and submits. There is no entry fee and no nomination step open to the public on the ballot itself; The Post controls who appears on the list.

The dated record for the midseason football ballot

The program's confirmed years are 2023 and 2025. The 2025 edition was live in September, which fits the midseason slot in a Florida high school football schedule, and the ballot is now marked closed. The newspaper's own headline for the page reads "The Post's Midseason Football Player of the Year voting (Poll Closed)".

The 2025 result is the one dated figure attached to the program. The leading nominee finished at 40 percent on 9,755 votes, with the runner-up at 31 percent, a spread that shows a genuinely contested field rather than a runaway. Those tallies come from the poll.fm ballot itself, which displays percentages beside each player once voting ends.

What the confirmed facts do not carry is the fine print. The Post has never printed the day the September window opens or the day it shuts, a category roster, or any per-supporter limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The paper also has not stated whether a nomination round precedes the vote or when the 2026 edition would open. On the evidence held here, September is the only month tied to the program, with 2026 the next expected cycle based on the two-year pattern of confirmed runs. Anything beyond that belongs to the newspaper's coverage, not to this ballot.

How a supporter votes in The Post's midseason football poll today

The literal sequence is short. A supporter pulls up the poll.fm address 16092697, reads the list of nominated high school football players, selects the button next to one name, and presses the submit button beneath the list. The page then confirms the choice was logged. No account creation, email verification or payment step appears anywhere on the form for the midseason football honor.

Because the 2025 edition is marked closed, a supporter arriving today sees the final tally rather than a live form. The percentages and vote counts remain visible beside each nominee, which is how the 40 percent and 9,755-vote figure for the leader is readable after the fact. When the newspaper opens the next midseason football ballot, the new poll number would replace or supplement this address, and the paper's football coverage is where that link would surface first.

Two practical notes follow from the form's shape. First, the selection is a single pick, so a supporter should read every name before submitting rather than searching for one school. Second, no repeat-voting rule appears on the form, so anyone planning a coordinated push for a player from Jupiter, Royal Palm Beach, Pahokee or anywhere else in the field should treat the newspaper's unstated terms as the limit and keep the push within ordinary community support.

Where this ballot sits among The Post's Florida neighbors

The midseason football honor is not the only reader-driven ballot on this Florida slate. Six sibling programs sit nearby, all built on the same pattern of a publisher nominating and supporters voting: 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.

What separates this program from those neighbors is cadence and scope. The weekly honors recur through their sports' seasons and reset every seven days; the midseason football honor is a single award at one point in the fall, which makes each edition's outcome matter more to the players and schools involved. A weekly ballot spreads attention across many winners, while the midseason vote concentrates it on one player from a field that spans Jupiter, Royal Palm Beach, Pahokee and the rest of the coverage area. Both share the same underlying mechanic, an open community ballot on a hosted form, so a supporter comfortable with one ballot can work the other without learning anything new.

Strengthening support for a nominee on this ballot

Support for a player in The Post's midseason football vote comes down to reaching the people already inclined to vote: the school community around a nominee in Jupiter, Royal Palm Beach, Pahokee or any other town in the field. The midseason form takes one selection per supporter on poll.fm, so the practical work is distribution. Share the exact ballot address rather than a search result, tell supporters which player to select before they open the form, and time the push while the September window is open, because a closed poll accepts nothing.

The newspaper has not printed rules about outside help for the midseason football ballot, so no one can quote a sanctioned limit. What is visible is the organizer's intent: a free community vote measuring real support for a high school athlete. A push that stays inside genuine community participation, teammates, families, student sections and local groups asked directly, matches that intent. For a fuller playbook built around open polls like this one, see how to get more votes online, and for the award-style context see buy award votes. Whatever route a campaign takes, the deciding constraint is the newspaper's own terms, which only the live ballot and the paper's coverage can state.