Houma-Thibodaux Area Postseason Baseball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A season-ending baseball vote, not another weekly ballot

Louisiana already has a crowded field of high school fan polls. The Baton Rouge High School Athlete of the Week, the New Orleans Area High School Athlete of the Week and the WAFB Sportsline Player of the Week all reset their ballots every few days during a season. This program works the opposite way. The Houma-Thibodaux Area Postseason Baseball Player of the Year waits until the baseball season is over, then puts the whole year's question to a single public vote.

The organizer appears under the Houma-Thibodaux Area name, and the ballot sits on Crowdsignal (poll.fm), the same platform behind many Louisiana fan votes. The market is the Houma and Thibodaux area of Louisiana, and the vertical is high school baseball. Any visitor to the page can select a nominee and submit, with no account, fee or nomination round printed alongside the form.

The 2025 ballot listed its field by school. Nominees represented Covenant Christian, South Terrebonne and Vandebilt Catholic, which places the award squarely among the parochial and public programs of Terrebonne and Lafourche. That gives the poll a distinctly local character. Where a statewide football ballot competes for attention across dozens of schools, this one speaks to a compact community that already knows the players from district games, summer league rosters and end-of-season coverage.

Program facts

What the ballot shows, and what it leaves out

This program's edition years on file are 2022 and 2025. The program counts as annual, with a next expected run in 2026. The gap between the confirmed years is wide, which means the organizer has never published a year-by-year account, and a reader should not assume the award ran continuously between them. What can be said is that both confirmed ballots anchored their voting to June, right after the Louisiana high school baseball postseason.

The live page at poll.fm/15578548 carries the 2025 edition, and its title reads as closed. That title matters for timing: the June 2025 window has passed, the tally is frozen, and the page now functions as a results archive rather than a live form. The organizer has not published the precise opening and closing days of the ballot, the size of the nominee field beyond the listed schools, or any rule limiting repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Other practical details are absent in the same way. No rules text about eligibility appears with the ballot, so whether a nominee must come from a particular parish, class or team is not addressed anywhere the organizer publishes. Platform round dates for a future edition are also not posted anywhere, so there is no advance schedule to plan around. For a program this local, the poll.fm page is effectively the sole published source, and it speaks only while an edition is current.

How a supporter votes on this ballot

The mechanic could hardly be simpler. A supporter opens the ballot page, reads the answers, and selects a single nominee by radio control. Each answer pairs a player with his school, in the 2025 case drawing from Covenant Christian, South Terrebonne and Vandebilt Catholic. After the selection, a vote control under the answers submits the choice, and the platform then shows the running results. There is no write-in box, no login step and no registration printed with the ballot, so the whole action takes seconds.

What a supporter cannot do right now is vote. The current page is the 2025 edition and its title is marked closed, so the form no longer accepts submissions. A closed Crowdsignal poll keeps its results on display, which is useful as a history but useless as a vote. Anyone planning to support a player in the next edition needs to wait for a new ballot, which would be expected around June 2026, and the organizer posts no advance notice page to sign up for.

The open question for repeat voting is real but unstated. Crowdsignal ballots can be configured in different ways, and nothing published for this award says whether a device may vote repeatedly, whether results refresh live, or whether the organizer clears the tally before closing. A supporter who wants to organize a group effort therefore has no published ceiling to plan against, and should treat the live form's behavior during the next edition as the actual rule.

Where this ballot sits among its Louisiana neighbours

Setting this program beside its siblings shows why it fills a different slot. The Louisiana High School Football Player of the Week and the New Orleans Area Prep Football Player of the Week ride a weekly cycle through the fall, with a fresh nominee list every few days and a fresh winner each week. The Shreveport Times High School Athlete of the Week does the same from the opposite corner of the state. Each of those ballots asks who was best in a particular week of play.

This award asks a bigger question about a smaller field. It covers baseball rather than football, it covers a full postseason rather than a week, and it draws its nominees from a compact group of Houma and Thibodaux area schools rather than a metro-wide list. A supporter comparing the two models should notice the practical difference: a weekly ballot rewards sustained, repeated mobilization across a whole season, while a postseason ballot concentrates everything into a short June window where a single push decides the outcome.

The platform is shared ground. Crowdsignal (poll.fm) hosts many Louisiana fan votes, so the voting experience here feels familiar to anyone who has supported a weekly athlete ballot in Baton Rouge or New Orleans. What differs is the publisher's rhythm and the sport. For families in Terrebonne and Lafourche who follow spring baseball, this is the ballot that ends the season, and it has no weekly counterpart listed for the same market.

Building support that counts in a short postseason window

A postseason baseball ballot rewards preparation. Because the whole vote compresses into June, the campaigns that do well are the ones organized before the ballot opens: a team parent or booster who has the poll.fm link ready, a group chat of teammates and families, and alumni reached through the school's own channels. The nominee list here comes from Covenant Christian, South Terrebonne and Vandebilt Catholic, all schools with active baseball communities, so the outreach targets a known audience rather than strangers.

The organizer publishes no rule on outside help, no limit on repeat voting and no eligibility text, so there is no stated boundary beyond the form itself. That silence is a reason for care, not invention: a ballot with a short window and a small field will show a sudden surge plainly in its results view. The practical guidance in the get more votes guide centers on genuine outreach that fits this format, and the organizer's silence means the safest reading is to keep support to what real people will actually cast.