Section v Boys AGR Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A closed ballot, an unpublished rule set, and what that means for supporters

The problem a supporter or a nominating business runs into with this program is simple: the vote everyone is talking about has already ended, and the rules that would shape any push were never printed in the first place. The 2025-26 ballot asked readers who should be Section V's boys AGR player of the year, it ran on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/17277054, and it shut at 8 p.m. on August 2, 2026. Arriving today, a visitor sees a closed poll and a final tally, not a form.

AGR runs the program. The ballot is a public vote, meaning anyone who reaches the page can cast a choice for one of the listed nominees, and the result is displayed as a percentage share next to each name. Crowdsignal, the host, is a polling service of the general-purpose sort, so the mechanics are the platform's standard ones: pick an option, submit, see the tally.

What AGR leaves unwritten is the part that matters most for planning. There is no printed opening date for the next window, no eligibility text describing who may vote, and no stated ceiling on repeat participation by any individual. The table below gathers what is known.

The dated record: 2025, 2026, and the August 2 close

Two editions are on the books: 2025 and 2026. The most recent ballot is tied to the 2025-26 school year, which is how the organizer framed the question itself, asking who should be Section V's boys AGR player of the year for 2025-26. That phrasing ties the vote to a season rather than a calendar year, which is why the 2026 edition covers a season that began in 2025.

The window for that edition ran through July 2026 and ended at 8 p.m. on August 2, 2026, when the poll shut. The final tally shows the leading nominee holding 57 percent of 23,146 votes, a total that gives some sense of how much turnout a Section V boys ballot of this kind can draw. No opening day was published for that window, and no nomination round dates appear anywhere on the ballot page.

Because the program is annual, the 2027 cycle should bring the next edition. AGR has not printed an opening date, an eligibility rule or a limit on repeat voting for any edition; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Until a new poll number appears on the organizer's coverage, the closed 2025-26 page is the only live artifact of this program.

How a supporter votes when the ballot is open

The mechanic is deliberately plain. When an edition is live, a supporter opens the Crowdsignal ballot, reads the list of nominees grouped by school, selects the button beside one name, and submits. The page then shows the percentage each nominee holds, so the standings are visible to everyone who votes. There is no account to create on the ballot itself and no separate nomination form for the public; the nominee list arrives already assembled on the poll.

That structure carries two practical consequences. First, the vote is a single selection per ballot interaction, so the entire effort of a campaign concentrates on moving people to one page and having them complete one action. Second, because the tally is public, momentum is visible, and a nominee trailing by a visible margin has a harder ask than one in a close race.

What the ballot does not specify is anything about frequency or identity. AGR has not published a rule on returning to vote again, on whether one device may vote repeatedly, or on any verification step. The organizer also does not print a category list for this program; the question on the form is singular, with a single winner rather than a multi-category form. Those behaviors are visible only on the live poll once an edition is running.

Where this ballot sits among New York's player-of-the-week programs

Section V Boys AGR Player of the Year differs from most of its New York neighbours in cadence and scope. It is a year-end award for one gender and one section, not a weekly honor, so its window is long and its result settles a whole season. The neighbouring programs on this site are mostly weekly series run by publishers:

Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week covers girls high school sport in the Buffalo market. Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week runs a football-specific weekly vote. lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week do the same for basketball in the Lower Hudson Valley.

Statewide and section-level football votes round out the set: New York High School Football Player of the Week and New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week. What separates the AGR ballot is that it names one player of the year for boys sport across Section V, drawing nominees from communities such as Fairport, Penfield, Victor, Pittsford, Brighton and Honeoye Falls-Lima, and that its deciding vote happens once per school year rather than every week.

Strengthening support in a year-end Section V ballot

Because this ballot decides a whole season in one window, support has to be built while the poll is open, and the 2025-26 run showed what that takes: 23,146 votes were cast before the August 2 close, so a handful of shares will not move the result. AGR prints nothing anywhere about outside assistance, bought support or voting software, which means no published rule either permits or bans it for this ballot.

What is certain is the mechanic: every vote is a person reaching the Crowdsignal page and completing one selection. Outreach that gives people the exact link, names the nominee and states the deadline does the work the ballot rewards. Anything that inflates the tally without real supporters is a judgment call the organizer has left entirely unstated, and an unstated rule is an uncomfortable thing to test against a visible public tally. The service-side details, where relevant, live on our award votes page, which explains how such services generally work without promising any result in this or any poll.