MLive Flint-Area Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Flint-area player of the week vote is and who runs it

The MLive Flint-Area Football Player of the Week vote is a recurring feature of MLive's high school sports desk in Michigan. Each week during the football season the publisher assembles a shortlist of nominated players from schools around Flint, Michigan and posts it as a poll on Crowdsignal, hosted on the poll.fm domain. The confirmed ballot address is https://poll.fm/16177221.

The market the series serves is the Flint area rather than the whole state. The Week 8 slate alone drew nominees with school affiliations at Grand Blanc, Flushing, Durand, Montrose, Goodrich and Flint Elite, which gives a fair picture of the footprint: a cluster of programs from Flint and its surrounding communities, competing in the same vote each week.

The mechanics are simple enough to describe in a table.

Because the program is a weekly series, the page you land on changes: the featured ballot at the address above is titled Vote for Flint-area Football Player of the Week for Week 8 and already carries a Poll Closed notice, with a fresh poll replacing it as the season advances.

The dated history for this weekly series

The series has a history that stretches back several seasons. Confirmed seasons are 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025, each built from a run of weekly ballots rather than a single annual event, and a new cycle is live for 2026.

Within a season, the vote follows the rhythm of the high school football calendar. Ballots land across August, September and October, which lines up with the regular season and early playoffs. The timing evidence behind that window comes from dated ballots across the 2018 to 2025 seasons, all falling in those three months.

For the 2026 cycle the dates are printed plainly. Nominations close at 11:59 p.m. on September 16, and the vote stays open until 9 a.m. on Friday, September 18. MLive's article states: \"Voting is open until 9 a.m. on Friday, September 18\", and tells readers they may vote as often as they wish. Coaches and athletic directors are invited to recommend players before the nomination cutoff, and the publisher assembles the slate from those recommendations.

What MLive has not published is a standing description of how each week's slate is capped or structured, since the nominee mix is assembled fresh every week; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The featured Week 8 ballot also shows partial results beside the closed notice, which is how the series reports its outcome once the Friday morning deadline passes.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

Voting is a browser action on the poll page itself. A supporter opens the live ballot, reviews the list of nominated players printed above the poll buttons, clicks the selection beside a chosen player, and submits. That submission is the count that matters: MLive's instruction is that votes must be submitted through the poll provided, and that votes via X or email will not be counted. Social-media campaigns and emailed recommendations, however loud, never touch the tally.

The second part of the mechanic is the repeat visit. The organizer's printed rule allows participants to vote as often as they wish, so a motivated school community can return to the same poll again and again until the deadline. There is no login, no registration and no verification step described on the ballot page; a visitor arrives, clicks, submits, and is free to repeat. Combined with a 9 a.m. Friday cutoff, the practical shape of the race is simple: whichever community organizes the most repeat visits before Friday morning usually decides the result.

Because the featured ballot for Week 8 is marked Poll Closed, a supporter arriving now should wait for the next weekly post, which MLive publishes with its high school sports coverage as each new slate opens. The poll.fm address then points at the live week's vote.

How this ballot sits beside its Michigan neighbours

The Flint area vote does not run alone. MLive operates the same weekly player of the week format across its Michigan coverage zones, and each zone counts separately. The closest structural cousins include the Ann Arbor-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the MLive Bay City-Area High School Football Player of the Week, both of which follow the same publish, nominate and vote rhythm during the fall.

A separate Flint-Area High School Football Player of the Week page also exists in this market, which is worth noting for anyone comparing results: two Flint-area programmes can appear similar by name while answering to their own weekly slates. Further afield, the Jackson-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the MLive Kalamazoo-Area High School Football Player of the Week cover their own cities, and the High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week runs statewide under a different publisher.

What distinguishes the Flint ballot inside this group is its market size and its nominee mix. Slates here have drawn from Grand Blanc, Flushing, Durand, Montrose, Goodrich and Flint Elite, so the vote aggregates a wider ring of communities than a single-city ballot would. A vote cast in the Flint poll carries no weight toward any neighbouring market's result.

Building support within this ballot's own rules

This programme rewards organized repeat voting more than almost any other format, because MLive's printed rule allows unlimited participation and the window is short. The practical playbook is to mobilize a school community, whether that is Grand Blanc, Flushing, Durand or a smaller program, and to time the push so it lands before the 9 a.m. Friday cutoff rather than after the poll has closed.

Two constraints from the organizer shape what works. Votes count only through the poll, never through X or email, so directing everyone to the poll.fm page matters more than social-media volume. And the slate resets weekly, so momentum does not carry over from a previous week's result. Supporters who want a broader toolkit, from reminder cadences to community outreach that fits unlimited ballots, can work through our guide to earning more votes, and the service options behind that guide are described on our award votes page.