The Enterprise High School Boys Basketball Preseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Enterprise preseason player of the year ballot is and who runs it

The Enterprise High School Boys Basketball Preseason Player of the Year lets readers decide a preseason honor for Massachusetts high school boys basketball. Unlike end-of-season awards, the nominees are named before the winter schedule begins, and the publisher's audience picks the winner while the season is still ahead of the players on the list.

The vote is hosted on Crowdsignal, the balloting service reached through poll.fm, and the confirmed ballot address is https://poll.fm/16397270. The ballot presents a list of nominees tied to high school programs across the publisher's southeastern Massachusetts coverage area. The nominee affiliations on the confirmed ballot reach communities including Abington, Avon, Bridgewater-Raynham, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hanson and West Bridgewater, which gives the poll a genuinely regional footprint rather than a single-school audience.

The Enterprise is not new to reader voting. The same publisher family also runs the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week, a weekly honor on the same sports beat, so the preseason player of the year ballot sits inside an established reader-vote operation rather than appearing as a standalone experiment.

The dated record behind the Enterprise preseason boys basketball vote

Confirmed editions of the Enterprise preseason player of the year ballot ran in 2022 and in 2025. That spread is what qualifies the program as a recurring fixture rather than a single experiment: the publisher brought the preseason vote back after a gap, and the recurrence pattern places the next edition in 2026. Both confirmed cycles concentrated their voting in December, ahead of the Massachusetts high school basketball season, which makes the window predictable even though the dates are not.

The 2025 ballot carries a closed marker in its title, so the address at poll.fm/16397270 is the settled edition of the series rather than a live vote. A supporter arriving at that page today sees the finished result, not an open ballot.

A number of facts never reach the published page. The Enterprise has not printed the open and close dates of its preseason player of the year vote, nor a category roster, nor a per-supporter voting rule, nor any dates for platform rounds; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot page publishes no nomination round either, and no eligibility text for the nominees appears alongside the list. Everything a campaign planner needs beyond the December pattern has to come from the live page when the next edition posts.

How a supporter votes in the Enterprise preseason player of the year poll

Voting is deliberately simple, because the Enterprise ballot is built for a general readership rather than for registered members. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal page The Enterprise publishes for the preseason boys basketball honor, reads through the nominee list, selects the player they back, and clicks the vote control to log the choice. There is no nomination stage for the public: the publisher assembles the nominee list, and the audience's whole job is the pick.

Timing is the practical constraint. The confirmed 2025 ballot is titled as closed, so the poll.fm address that exists today cannot accept a vote. A supporter who wants to participate needs the next edition, which the recurrence pattern places in 2026 with a December window like the confirmed cycles before it. When the new ballot posts, it will go up on its own address on poll.fm, and The Enterprise's sports coverage is the place the launch is announced.

Two details are worth checking on the live page rather than assuming. The ballot prints no account requirement, so a supporter should not assume an email prompt exists or that it does not. And the publisher prints no per-supporter limit for the Enterprise preseason vote, so the on-page instructions at vote time are the only authority on repeat voting. Both points have varied across Crowdsignal ballots, and this publisher has not published its own position.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

The Enterprise preseason player of the year vote is one of several reader-vote programs in the Massachusetts high school sports space, and the neighbouring programs show what sets this one apart. The Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week comes from the same publisher family but runs on a weekly cycle across sports, while this ballot is a single preseason honor focused on boys basketball alone. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week serves a different Massachusetts publisher's territory on the same weekly shape.

Statewide programs round out the field. The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week both run weekly recognition cycles, and the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week covers a different season entirely. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is the closest structural cousin, a player of the year honor, but it belongs to softball and a different award operator.

What separates the Enterprise ballot is the combination of preseason timing, the December window, the boys basketball focus, and the regional nominee list reaching from Brockton out to Abington, Hanson and the Bridgewater communities. No other program in this set asks readers to judge a basketball season before it starts.

Strengthening support in the Enterprise preseason poll

This Enterprise ballot runs as a plain public vote on Crowdsignal within a December window, so effective support in the preseason player of the year poll comes down to timing before anything else. A nominee camp that organizes during the live window, circulates the poll.fm address directly, and asks every teammate, family member and classmate to vote while the ballot is open gets the most from the mechanic. Once the ballot closes, as the 2025 edition has, nothing can be added to the total.

The organizer's published position is thin: The Enterprise prints no stated rule about organized voting pushes or outside help on this ballot page, so the live instructions are the only published constraint a campaign has. That makes careful reading at launch more valuable than assumptions carried over from other polls. General methods that work across public reader votes, from reminder cadence to community outreach, are set out on our guide to getting more votes online, and the rules question is treated honestly on our legality page. For award-style ballots specifically, our award votes page explains how packages map onto this kind of honor.