Who is the Atlantic City Electric South Jersey Boys Basketball Mean 15 performer of the week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Mean 15 performer of the week vote is and who runs it

The Atlantic City Electric South Jersey Boys Basketball Mean 15 performer of the week is a fan-voted honor for high school boys basketball in the South Jersey corner of New Jersey. The sponsor name in the title belongs to Atlantic City Electric, the utility whose branding the series carries, while the program itself is an editorial product of The Press of Atlantic City, the daily paper that covers the Atlantic City region and the surrounding South Jersey counties. The Mean 15 label refers to the publisher's ranked list of the area's top boys basketball teams, and the performer of the week ballot spins off that coverage during the winter season.

Each week the publisher nominates a short list of performers from games played that week, posts them to a Crowdsignal ballot, and lets readers decide who takes the honor. The ballot at poll.fm/16670762 is one edition of that sequence: its nominees are shown with the South Jersey schools they represent, in the classic matchup format the platform uses. Crowdsignal, the poll.fm service, is the same balloting host a large share of American publishers use for athlete of the week polls, which is why the address looks familiar to anyone who has voted in a newspaper sports poll before.

Program facts at a glance

The dated record: which editions ran and when voting happens

Two editions of this program are confirmed: one in 2022 and one in 2025. Those two years are what qualify the series as annual in this reference, and the ballot evidence behind the 2025 season comes from a run of weekly ballots dated across a single winter season. No edition years beyond those two are published for this program, so any claim about a continuous run from 2022 to the present would go beyond what the published ballots show here.

The seasonal shape is clear from the ballot dates. Voting in this series falls between December and February, the months when New Jersey high school basketball is actually played, and the 2025 season's ballots line up in that same winter band. Weekly sports polls of this kind open at the start of a voting week and close a few days later, and the publisher replaces each closed poll with the next week's nominees until the season ends. The exact open and close dates of any individual week's ballot are not published ahead of time; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

What the publisher has not printed on the ballot page is the fine print most voters ask about: a per-supporter vote cap, a one-vote-per-day rule, and any eligibility restriction on who may take part. The nomination criteria for each week's list are likewise an editorial matter the ballot does not explain. Those gaps are ordinary for weekly Crowdsignal polls but they are real gaps, and no page should paper over them with borrowed rule text from a different publisher's contest.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

The mechanic is the simplest one in the public-vote world. A supporter opens the poll.fm ballot, sees the week's nominated performers each listed beside their school, clicks the picker beside the name they want, and presses the vote button. Crowdsignal then reveals the running tally, which is part of the appeal for school communities: a voter can see exactly where their performer stands the moment the choice is submitted.

Because the series is weekly, timing matters as much as mechanics. A ballot stays open only for its own week, and once the publisher marks it closed the vote count is frozen. The confirmed ballot at poll.fm/16670762 carries a closed-poll notice between postings, so a supporter who arrives late in the season may be looking at last week's result rather than a live list. Following the publisher's sports coverage is how readers catch the moment a fresh ballot goes up during the December to February run.

There is no write-in field to manage and no account to create: the vote is a click, which means a performer's total reflects pure reach. The schools whose players appear on these ballots spread across the South Jersey basketball map, and mobilizing a team's families, the student section and local followers in the hours before a poll closes is what moves these numbers. Anything a supporter wants to do beyond that simple click runs into the same open question of whether the organizer caps repeat voting, which the ballot does not state.

How this ballot sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

South Jersey basketball fans have several overlapping weekly votes to follow, and each answers to a different publisher. The closest cousin in coverage terms is the Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week, which covers the other half of the sport in much the same region. For statewide boys basketball the New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week draws from a wider pool of programs than this Mean 15 ballot, which stays anchored to the Atlantic City and greater South Jersey coverage area.

Beyond basketball the same weekly fan-vote pattern runs through football season: the New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week and the Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball keep the format alive through the fall, while the Asbury Park Press runs its own athlete of the week across sports from the Shore, and NJ MileSplit does the same for track with its boys performer of the week series.

What distinguishes the Mean 15 vote within that crowd is the sponsor arrangement and the franchise around it. Atlantic City Electric's name sits in the title, tying the poll to a local utility brand, and the ballot feeds the publisher's Mean 15 rankings coverage rather than standing alone. For readers deciding where to spend their weekly click, the practical difference is simple: this is the boys basketball ballot with the deepest South Jersey grounding, run by the paper that covers those gyms every night of the season.