The Hometeam Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Hometeam Football Player of the Week is and who runs it

Hometeam's Football Player of the Week honor is decided by a public vote among Massachusetts high school football fans, carried on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal ballot service. The working ballot address is poll.fm/14667318, and its title asks the question outright: who is the Hometeam Football Player of the Week? Each weekly edition during the fall season lists nominees by player and school, and any supporter who opens the page can cast a vote in the poll. Because the ballot names high school players, this reference describes the program by publisher, sport, class and season rather than by naming any nominee.

The schools that appear on recent ballots reach across central Massachusetts: Hudson, Sutton, West Boylston, Northbridge, Clinton, Fitchburg, Maynard and Littleton are all on the list the poll draws from. That footprint makes this a regional football vote rather than a single-school poll, and it explains why a closed week can finish with a very large vote total behind the leading name.

The fixed facts about the program sit in a single table.

Hometeam publishes the poll under its own name, and the ballot closes into a results view showing each nominee's share. Readers who want a wider view of Massachusetts public votes can compare this ballot with the sibling programs listed at the foot of the page, all of which sit in the same sport vertical.

The dated history of the Hometeam football poll

The football poll has confirmed seasons in 2022 and 2024. The 2024 season was not a single ballot but a weekly series: seven player-of-the-week questions were posted on poll.fm across the fall, and the voting window for that season ran from October into November. That places the program squarely inside the Massachusetts high school football calendar, when weekly results are fresh and school communities are paying attention.

The most recent closed ballot shows how heavy the turnout runs. The leading finisher took 56 percent of 105,021 votes, the runner-up finished at 39 percent on 72,886 votes, and the third-place nominee held 4 percent of 6,674. A weekly poll drawing a total that large sits among the heavier-drawn high school ballots in the state, and it explains why a football week can pull support well beyond the schools named on it.

Hometeam has not printed fixed open and close dates for any week's vote, and no announcement names a next edition year. Which players appear on a given week's ballot is settled during the season rather than posted in advance, and the organizer publishes no rule on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the Hometeam ballot today

Casting a vote in Hometeam's weekly football poll is a short sequence, and every step happens on the poll.fm ballot itself. The first move is opening the ballot at poll.fm/14667318, reading the question, and finding the list of nominees, each shown alongside the school the player represents. Selecting the button beside a name and submitting the choice registers the vote on the Crowdsignal ballot for Hometeam's weekly football question, with no login step described on the page.

Once the week ends, the same address switches to a results view that lists every nominee's share of the total, so a supporter who returns after the close sees the final standings in place of the vote form. Between weekly questions during the fall, or after the season ends, the current ballot can display a closed poll, which is exactly what the live ballot shows now.

When Hometeam posts the next weekly question, the vote reopens on a fresh ballot and the same steps apply. The organizer does not publish a rule limiting how often one person can vote within a week, and no eligibility text appears on the ballot, so the page itself is the authority on any limit a voter encounters.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

This football poll does not sit alone in Massachusetts. Six sibling programs cover the same state and the same sport vertical, each answering to a different publisher. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week is a newspaper-run honor, while the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week serves the Brockton area under its own masthead. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year moves to a different sport and to a season-long award rather than a weekly vote.

The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week opens the field to every sport, and the state's baseball player of the week ballot and basketball player of the week ballot do the same work this football ballot does, sport by sport, in their own seasons. Each runs under its own publisher, so a vote in the Hometeam poll counts only on the Hometeam ballot and never on the sibling polls.

What separates the Hometeam ballot from those neighbours is its publisher and its rhythm: Hometeam runs a football-only question each week of the fall season on Crowdsignal, with schools from Hudson to Fitchburg on the list. A supporter following Massachusetts high school sport can move between these ballots as the seasons turn, and each link in the list below leads to its own reference page.

Strengthening support in the Hometeam football poll

Support in this program behaves differently from a one-time contest, because the ballot resets weekly through the fall. A school community backing its player has a short window each week, and the votes that matter are the ones gathered while the poll.fm question is live. Hometeam publishes no statement on outside help for this football poll, so any push should stay within what the ballot itself allows.

The practical moves are the ordinary ones: hand the poll.fm link to families and fans directly, post it where the school community already gathers, and remind supporters that the ballot lists every nominee with a school name, so the correct selection matters. For a fuller walkthrough of legitimate promotion on reader ballots like this football vote, see our guide at how to get more votes online, and for award-style ballots the award votes page covers the wider context.