Who is the Hometeam Boys' Basketball Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Hometeam boys' basketball poll is and who runs it

This programme is Hometeam's weekly fan vote for Massachusetts high school boys' basketball. Hometeam is the organizer named on the ballot, and Crowdsignal hosts the voting through its poll.fm site, the same polling platform behind a family of weekly high school sports polls across the state. The current representative ballot for the series sits at poll.fm/16700741, and its title ends with the marker "(Poll Closed)", which is how the platform labels a weekly round that has finished taking votes.

The ballot allows one choice per submission. Each weekly round lists a set of nominated players, each shown with the school he attends, and supporters pick a name and submit. Schools appearing on recent ballots include Bartlett, Sutton, Millbury, Auburn, Hudson, Doherty, Keefe Tech, Whitinsville Christian, David Prouty and Bancroft, a spread that runs across central and eastern Massachusetts rather than clustering in a single league or county.

Facts at a glance

Because the programme is weekly, the ballot at any given address is one round in a longer season rather than a standalone contest. A closed poll stays online with its final tally visible, which is useful for reading how a past week finished, but voting only happens on the round that is currently open.

The dated record for the Hometeam basketball poll

The published history holds two edition years, 2022 and 2025. Those two years are what qualify the series as an annual fixture in the Massachusetts high school sports calendar, and they are the full extent of the printed history: no page in the series states which winters between them carried a complete weekly schedule, and none claims a founding year earlier than 2022.

The season window is the clearest dated fact the series carries. Ballots across the most recent season are dated between December and March, which tracks the Massachusetts high school basketball calendar from early-season play through the winter tournament stretch. Within that window, each weekly round opens and closes on its own schedule, and the closed rounds keep their final tallies online.

One closed round shows what a finished ballot looks like. Its leading nominee held 62 percent of the vote on a tally of 10,883 votes, while the runner-up held 12 percent on 2,019 votes. Those figures are visible to anyone who opens the closed poll, and they give a sense of the scale a single weekly round in this series can reach when a school community turns out.

What the series does not publish is just as consistent. Hometeam has not printed fixed dates for any individual weekly ballot, the nomination route that puts a player on the list, or any per-supporter vote limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The weekly rounds also carry no printed end date for the season as a whole, so the March close is read from the ballot dates rather than from an announcement.

How a supporter votes in the Hometeam poll today

Voting on the current ballot takes only a moment. A supporter reaches the week's poll.fm page, reads the nominated boys' basketball players each shown with his school, taps the selector next to one name, and presses the vote button. The page then displays the running tally for that round as percentages with raw vote counts beside them, which is how the 62 percent to 12 percent spread on the most recent closed ballot was visible to every visitor.

No account is requested at any point in that sequence. The Crowdsignal ballot does not ask for an email, a login, or a school affiliation before accepting a choice, which is what makes the poll responsive to a quick share among classmates, parents and local followers. The same simplicity means the tally moves fast when a school community organizes, so early and repeated outreach through the week matters more than a single late push.

Two things a supporter will not find on the ballot are a stated rule on repeat voting and a stated rule on eligibility. The poll page carries the nominee list, the vote button and the tally, and nothing else by way of terms. If Crowdsignal applies a silent limit, the first sign is a tally that stops moving despite continued submissions. The practical rhythm for a weekly round is therefore simple: vote early in the week the ballot is live, circulate the address while the round is open, and treat the displayed percentages as the only feedback the ballot gives.

How this poll sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

The Hometeam boys' basketball poll is one of several weekly and seasonal public votes covering Massachusetts high school sport, and knowing the neighbours helps a supporter land on the right ballot. The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week runs a broader multi-sport weekly vote, while the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week covers the same sport under a different organizer. The Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week carries the same weekly shape into the spring season.

Regional publishers run their own versions. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week serves the Merrimack Valley side of the state, and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week serves the Brockton area, each answering to its own publisher rather than to Hometeam. At the seasonal end, the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a year-end award rather than a weekly poll, so its rhythm and its electorate differ from anything on this page.

What distinguishes the Hometeam ballot within that set is its single-sport focus and its weekly reset. A nominee who finishes second in one week's round does not carry votes into the next; each ballot starts from zero, and the nominee list is rebuilt around that week's standout performances. For a boys' basketball family in Massachusetts, that makes the Hometeam poll the most focused of the weekly options, and the one whose December-to-March window matches the sport's season exactly.

Strengthening support in a weekly Hometeam round

Because this ballot resets every week, support that works is support built for a short round. The tally on the poll.fm page updates as percentages with raw counts, so a school community can see within hours whether its outreach is landing. The practical playbook for a Hometeam round is to circulate the ballot address as soon as the week's list appears, ask the school's own channels to pass it on, and remind people that the poll asks for a single choice per submission with no login in the way.

Hometeam prints no statement on the ballot about outside help, paid votes or automation, and no rules text accompanies the poll. The silence leaves the position open in both directions: nothing published authorizes purchased support, and nothing published forbids it, so anyone considering it should read the organizer's own terms elsewhere on its site before acting. Our award votes page explains how support packages work on ballots of this kind generally, without promising any particular outcome in a poll whose rules are not printed. What nobody disputes is the round's shape: a December-to-March season, a fresh nominee list each week, and a tally that rewards whoever reaches the most supporters first.