Daily Advertiser Midseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the midseason player of the year vote is and who runs it

Run by The Daily Advertiser, a Louisiana newspaper whose newsroom publishes at theadvertiser.com, the Daily Advertiser Midseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year lets readers choose the player of the year in boys basketball at the midpoint of the high school season. It honors one player instead of naming a weekly honoree, a difference from the paper's recurring reader features.

Crowdsignal, the poll.fm platform behind many newsroom reader polls, hosts the ballot, and the live voting page sits at https://poll.fm/16481305. The most recent edition ran under the title Daily Advertiser's 2025-26 Midseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year, and that poll has closed. Its options were guards from high schools around the state, each option naming the player, his position and his school.

Voting takes little more than opening the ballot, picking a player and submitting. The organizer's own promotion to readers states, "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often," which is the only published rule attached to this ballot.

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window falls

Confirmed editions of this midseason vote ran in 2023, 2025 and 2026. The timing evidence places the voting window in January: the 2025 and 2026 ballots both opened and closed in January, keyed to the midpoint of the Louisiana high school basketball season. The 2025-26 edition is the most recent, and its poll has closed. 2027 should bring the next edition.

The paper publishes no opening or closing dates for a cycle ahead of the ballot itself, so the precise nomination and voting dates for the next edition are a matter to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

On rules, the organizer's promotion to readers is explicit and is the only published guidance: "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often." No category roster applies here, because the ballot honors a single player of the year, and no eligibility text beyond the nominee list appears with the poll.

For a supporter planning outreach, the practical reading is simple. The window is short, it lands in January, and the paper closes the poll at midseason, so any push has to happen inside that month. Once the page carries a poll closed notice, as the 2025-26 ballot does, votes submitted there count for nothing.

How a supporter votes on the Daily Advertiser ballot today

Voting takes four moves. The first takes the supporter to poll.fm/16481305, where the ballot waits; from there they read the list of nominees, select the guard they want as player of the year and submit. Every option carries the player's name, his position and his Louisiana high school, so matching the name against the school you follow is the only judgment the ballot asks of you.

No login or account is required by anything printed with the poll. The organizer's promotion states there are no voting restrictions, which means a supporter may return to the ballot during the January window without a daily cap being enforced on the page. That promotion, "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often," is the paper's whole published rule set for this vote.

Timing outweighs technique on this ballot. The 2025 and 2026 ballots both ran inside January, and the 2025-26 poll has closed. A vote submitted on a closed ballot does nothing, so the first thing a supporter should check on arriving at poll.fm/16481305 is the heading: if it reads poll closed, the live edition has ended and the next ballot, due in 2027, is the one that counts.

Because every vote concentrates on one list of guards rather than being spread across categories, midseason pushes from school communities tend to move the percentage standings quickly while the window is open.

How this ballot sits beside its Louisiana neighbours

Louisiana carries a cluster of public-vote sports programs, and this midseason award is the basketball entry among them. The others are weekly honors: the Baton Rouge High School Athlete of the Week, the Louisiana High School Football Player of the Week, the New Orleans Area High School Athlete of the Week, the New Orleans Area Prep Football Player of the Week, the Shreveport Times High School Athlete of the Week and the WAFB Sportsline Player of the Week.

Two differences set the Daily Advertiser ballot apart. It is a midseason award, not a weekly one, so it runs a single January window per basketball season instead of a ballot every few days. And the honor goes to a single player of the year, so the whole ballot is one list of guards competing for one award, where the weekly programs rotate nominees across sports and schools.

The organizer is also distinct. The Daily Advertiser is a newspaper publishing at theadvertiser.com, while the WAFB Sportsline honor belongs to a television station. All of these programs share the public-vote mechanic and a Louisiana audience, so a school community that mobilizes well for a weekly athlete vote can apply the same habits to the midseason basketball ballot when January arrives.

Strengthening support for a Daily Advertiser midseason nominee

This ballot rewards early, repeated participation. The organizer's promotion says there are no voting restrictions, so a supporter who returns to the poll.fm ballot through the January window multiplies their contribution without touching any rule the paper has published. There is no published cap to work around and no login to manage.

The window is the constraint. Both the 2025 and 2026 ballots opened and closed within January, and the 2025-26 poll has closed, so outreach aimed at a closed page is wasted effort. Share the ballot link while the heading still shows an open poll, and ask the school community to vote before midseason passes.

For a fuller picture of outreach that fits public polls like this one, see award vote support, and check the organizer's rules before acting.