The Hometeam Girls' Basketball Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What separates this ballot from Massachusetts fan votes

Most fan votes a Massachusetts high school supporter encounters cover every sport at once, or follow a single publisher's whole coverage area. The Hometeam Girls' Basketball Player of the Week does neither. It is a girls-only, basketball-only series, and it runs weekly through the winter season rather than as a single year-end award. That narrow focus is the whole point: a nominee from Millbury or Sutton who would be buried in an all-sports ballot gets a dedicated question here.

Hometeam is the organizer named for the series, and the voting is handled by Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The ballot URL for the series is https://poll.fm/16699106, which currently holds a closed poll titled "Who is the Hometeam Girls' Basketball Player of the Week?" Each weekly ballot asks one question and lists nominees as radio-button options, each entered with her school or town. The closed ballot draws from communities including Tyngsborough, Oxford, Millbury, Hudson, Sutton, Hopedale, Douglas and Worcester Academy.

Because the series is weekly, the URL rotates: the address above is the latest ballot in the series, and it is replaced by a new question as the season moves. The key facts are gathered below.

The dated record for this Hometeam series

The Hometeam Girls' Basketball Player of the Week has two edition years behind it, 2022 and 2025. The 2025 season is documented through a run of weekly poll.fm ballots dated between December and March, which is also how the series' seasonal window is established. The 2026 cycle is the next expected run under that pattern.

The window itself is the strongest dated fact on the page: ballots across the 2025 season fall between December and March, tracking the Massachusetts girls basketball schedule from early winter through tournament season. No exact open or close date for any individual weekly poll is printed on the ballot page, and Hometeam has published no open or closing date for any weekly ballot, and no per-supporter vote limit either, on the poll.fm page for this series; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Other gaps are worth stating plainly. The ballot is a single question, so there is no category roster to publish in the first place. No eligibility rule, no nomination procedure and no round schedule for the platform appear anywhere on the poll page. Whether every year between 2022 and 2025 carried a full season of ballots is likewise not published; the confirmed years are the two named above, and anything beyond them is unstated by the organizer.

How a supporter votes on the Hometeam ballot

The mechanic on a Hometeam girls basketball ballot is about as simple as a poll.fm form gets. A supporter opens the current ballot, reads the single question, who is the girls basketball player of the week, and sees a vertical list of radio buttons. Each option pairs a nominee with her school or town, so a backer from Millbury or Sutton can find their community's entry at a glance.

Voting is a tap on the radio button and a press of the vote button under the option list. The ballot flow shows no account requirement and no email step; the submission registers and the page immediately displays the running results, with each nominee's percentage and raw total. On the closed poll, the leader finished at 55 percent on 12,453 votes and the runner-up at 35 percent on 7,940 votes, a margin wide enough that the result was never in doubt by the close.

Because the poll shown at the series URL is marked closed, a supporter arriving between seasons sees the final tally rather than a live form. During the December to March window the same address serves the fresh weekly question, and the nominee list changes every week as Hometeam rotates in a new set of players from across Massachusetts.

Where this ballot sits among its Massachusetts neighbours

Massachusetts has a crowded field of high school fan votes, and the Hometeam girls basketball series is distinguished by being the only one of its neighbours devoted to a single sport's girls side. The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week both span all sports, so a basketball nominee competes against swimmers and track runners there.

The Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week is closer in subject but covers the boys side, which is why the two pages stay separate. The Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week runs in a different season entirely, and the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a season-long award in a spring sport rather than a weekly winter vote.

The Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week is geographically narrow, tied to its publisher's coverage area, while the Hometeam series draws nominees from communities across the whole state, from Tyngsborough in the northeast to Oxford and Douglas further west. For a backer, the upshot is cadence: this ballot asks for a return visit every week of the season, not a single push before one deadline.

Strengthening support in a short-window weekly poll

Weekly polls reward speed. A Hometeam girls basketball ballot is live for a matter of days inside the December to March season, so the supporters who move the tally are the ones reached early: the school's own social accounts, the team's group chats and the booster network should circulate the poll.fm address the day the new nominee list appears. The ballot page states nothing from Hometeam about outside help, so the only published constraint is the form itself and whatever the live poll enforces at submission.

Because the same program appears week after week, a school that builds a repeat routine, the same channels, the same reminder cadence, compounds across the season instead of starting over each Monday. For a broader playbook that fits short-window public votes like this one, see our get more votes online guide, and for the award-vote specifics see buy award votes.