Vote for CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in boys basketball: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year ballot is

CatchMark SportsNet WMC is a Michigan publisher devoted to high school sports, and each boys basketball season it hands its audience a player of the year fan vote. The ballot is not run on the publisher's own website. It lives on Crowdsignal, the polling platform whose poll.fm addresses carry it, at poll.fm/13493189 for the 2023-24 edition. A supporter who opens that page sees the full slate of nominated players, each tagged with a school or community, and one click registers a vote.

The program sits in the broader family of Michigan fan ballots. Statewide readers who follow these awards will recognize the format from the Ann Arbor-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week. What separates the CatchMark ballot is scale and cadence: it is a single year-end honor rather than a weekly series, so the whole season's conversation funnels into one short voting window in March.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for this ballot

Two edition years are confirmed: 2023 and 2024. The 2023-24 edition is the one with a fully visible result, because its Crowdsignal page remains online in a closed state. That ballot ran and finished within March 2024, and the closed page still shows the complete standings: the leading nominee took 61 percent of the vote on 3,950 ballots cast, the runner-up finished at 27 percent on 1,766 votes, and the remaining nominees shared the rest. Those figures are printed on the poll page itself and give a rare precise picture of how a small-market fan vote performs.

No opening day or closing day appears in anything CatchMark SportsNet WMC has published about the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Nothing published yet names the next edition either. With a last confirmed run in 2024 and no announced follow-up, a supporter planning for the coming season needs to watch the publisher's coverage rather than any fixed calendar date, because the March pattern is an observed habit of two editions, not a rule the organizer has stated.

How to vote in the WMC player of the year poll today

The mechanic is deliberately simple. During the voting window the poll.fm page presents the nominee list as radio buttons. A supporter taps one name, presses the submit control, and Crowdsignal logs the response. No account, login or email is requested at any point in the flow, which is why these ballots move fast once a school community starts sharing the link. After submission the page typically shows the running tally, so late voters can see exactly how far behind their choice sits.

Once the organizer closes the poll, the same address flips to a closed banner and freezes the standings in place. That is the state the 2023-24 ballot is in now, and it is also the reason the final percentages remain quotable months later. For the next edition the address will change, since Crowdsignal issues a fresh poll identifier for each new ballot. The practical rule for supporters is to reach the new ballot only through a link posted by CatchMark SportsNet WMC during the season, because searching poll.fm directly will surface thousands of unrelated polls and no way to tell which one is the live WMC boys basketball honor.

Where this ballot sits among Michigan fan votes

Michigan readers have no shortage of fan ballots to vote in, and the CatchMark award is the basketball season's counterpart to the football weekly series that dominate the fall. Neighboring programs on this site include the MLive Bay City-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the Flint-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the Jackson-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the MLive Kalamazoo-Area High School Football Player of the Week. Those are weekly editions run by large metro newsrooms; the CatchMark ballot is a year-end honor from a publisher focused on a specific West Michigan coverage area.

Two differences matter to a supporter. First, the yearly cadence means there is exactly one short window per season, so a planned push cannot be repeated the following week the way a weekly player of the week vote allows. Second, the visible result is unusually transparent: because the closed Crowdsignal page publishes percentages and raw counts for every nominee, a campaign's effect is fully auditable after the close, at 61 percent and 3,950 votes for the 2023-24 winner. Publishers running weekly series rarely expose that level of detail.

Building support in a short-window player of the year vote

A year-end ballot rewards preparation, because the entire campaign has to happen inside a March window that lasted only weeks in the confirmed edition. The camp around a nominee should agree on the exact poll link before voting opens, brief the school's families and student sections with a single instruction naming one player, and schedule reminders for the first and last days of the window, when attention peaks. Because Crowdsignal requires no login, every share has to carry the full instruction, since a bare link leaves voters guessing which name to select.

CatchMark SportsNet WMC has not stated a position on outside vote assistance on the ballot page, and no purchase is involved in voting itself. That silence cuts both ways: nothing published endorses bought traffic, and nothing published forbids it, so the organizer's eventual review of the tally is the only authority that matters. General tactics for strengthening a fan vote campaign, and where purchased support fits, are set out in this guide to getting more votes.