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

What the Daily Advertiser's player of the year ballot is

Run by The Daily Advertiser, a Louisiana newspaper whose newsroom publishes at theadvertiser.com, this award lets readers choose the season's outstanding boys basketball player by public vote. Ballot hosting sits with Crowdsignal, whose poll.fm addresses carry each edition, and the program's ballot address is https://poll.fm/15209084.

The format is a straight reader vote. The newspaper assembles a ballot of nominated players from the season, publishes it on the polling platform, and lets readers settle the outcome by casting votes for the player they back. Because every nominee is a high school athlete and therefore a minor, this page describes the field by publisher, sport, class and season rather than by naming players. The ballot's own page carries the nominee list, with each athlete shown by position and school.

The most recent confirmed ballot covered the 2024-25 season and now sits marked Poll Closed on the polling platform. For quick reference, the program's fixed details sit together in this table.

The dated history of the award

Two cycles of this program are on the books, 2023 and 2025, and 2026 is the year the following edition should arrive.

The 2025 ballot's voting window fell entirely within March, according to the dating on the poll.fm ballot. That ballot covered the 2024-25 boys basketball season and is now closed. On the closed ballot, the leading tally stood at 21,774 votes, a 45 percent share for the top finisher.

In January 2026 the newspaper published a midseason basketball feature stating that the player of the year voting would conclude on January 21, with results set to be revealed afterward. That coverage also confirmed the program carries a nomination phase before voting opens, with boys and girls basketball athletes nominated together for the paper's midseason round.

A March window places the vote near the business end of the Louisiana high school basketball season, after district play has shaped who lands on the ballot. The gap between the March 2025 ballot and the January 2026 feature shows the program moving through a full cycle: a season of nominations, a voting round, then a revealed result. Beyond those points, no exact opening or closing day for any round, no list of ballot categories and no eligibility rule appear in print from the organizer; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the poll.fm ballot

Voting happens on the Crowdsignal ballot. A supporter opens the poll page, reads through the list of nominees, picks the player they intend to support, and sends the choice in. The ballot presents the nominee list and a voting control; the running tally is visible on the same page, so a supporter can see where their player stands before and after submitting.

The organizer's own promotion of the vote sets the frequency position plainly: "There are no voting restrictions, so vote now and vote often." That sentence, published by the Daily Advertiser side, means a supporter is free to revisit the ballot and cast again throughout the open window. It is the clearest rule the program publishes, and it is the basis for any serious push.

Missing from the ballot is any eligibility text or any stated ceiling on how often one person may cast, so the rules a supporter sees are the ones printed on the ballot page itself at the moment of voting. The current address shows a closed poll, meaning a visitor today sees final standings rather than an open choice. When a new edition opens, the newspaper promotes the fresh ballot through its sports coverage at theadvertiser.com, which is where supporters should watch for the next live link.

How this ballot sits beside its Louisiana neighbours

Louisiana readers have several public-vote sports programs to choose from, and the sibling pages on this site show the range. The Baton Rouge High School Athlete of the Week runs a recurring reader vote for capital-area athletes. The Shreveport Times High School Athlete of the Week does the same for the northwest of the state under a different newspaper's name.

Two New Orleans programs cover the southeast: the New Orleans Area High School Athlete of the Week and the New Orleans Area Prep Football Player of the Week. The Louisiana High School Football Player of the Week takes a statewide view of one sport, and the WAFB Sportsline Player of the Week answers to a television sports brand rather than a newspaper.

What separates the Daily Advertiser's program from all of them is shape and rhythm. It is a seasonal player of the year award for a single sport, boys basketball, decided at the end of a season rather than week to week. The weekly programs reset their fields every cycle; this one builds a season-long case for each nominee and settles it in a single vote, which changes how a supporter plans a push.

Strengthening support in this specific poll

Support in this program flows through a single act: votes on the poll.fm ballot. Because the organizer states there are no voting restrictions, a school community can legitimately ask its supporters to vote repeatedly while the ballot stays open, which is exactly what the newspaper's own vote-often language invites.

The practical levers are timing and reach. The paper's midseason coverage shows the vote concluding in January of the season in question, so supporters who begin early and keep reminding their networks across the whole season accumulate far more returns than a one-day surge at the end. Sharing the ballot link through team accounts, parent groups and student sections is the organic core of any campaign here, and each share should point straight at the ballot rather than at a secondary page.

For a fuller walkthrough of tactics that fit a public-vote ballot of this shape, see our guide to getting more votes online, which covers the same mechanic this program uses.