Who gets your vote for this week's Mella Window & Carpet Cleaning Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes here, and what the Mella Window poll is

This program is a weekly fan ballot, not a judges' panel or a season-long ranking. Every week during the high school football season, a fresh question appears on a Crowdsignal ballot: who gets your vote for this week's player of the week? The sponsor named on the ballot is Mella Window & Carpet Cleaning, a business whose name travels with the poll each week it runs.

The audience is the tri-state high school football community. Nominated players come from Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Eastern Indiana, so the people voting are the families, classmates and local supporters who watched the previous weekend's performances. That is what makes this ballot different from a statewide award: the pool of nominees is regional, the list changes every week, and the vote is settled inside a few days rather than stretched across a whole season.

The mechanics are simple enough for a first-time visitor. The current ballot sits at poll.fm/17442863 on Crowdsignal, a polling platform that hosts each weekly edition as its own poll. A supporter opens the page, sees that week's nominees listed with their schools, picks one and submits. Because each weekly poll is a separate ballot, a vote cast this week has no standing in next week's question, and every week starts from zero.

Program facts at a glance

The dated history: seasons, weekly rhythm and what is not published

The series has a long, steady history. Confirmed seasons run without interruption from 2019 through 2026, which is eight straight years of weekly balloting tied to the high school football calendar. Each season runs August through October, and inside that stretch a new poll launches every Sunday. The most recent confirmed season is 2026, and 2027 is the next expected cycle.

The weekly clock is the part supporters most often need. Nominations close at 7AM Sunday mornings, fed by email, and the ballot that results stays open through Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET. One recent ballot printed its own status line as open through that Wednesday noon deadline, which is the rhythm every weekly edition follows once it posts.

Two things the published material does not carry are worth flagging. The organizer has not published the list of nomination categories or the weekly stat lines that put a player on the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. And while the nomination email address and the hourly vote rule are stated, the exact Sunday launch time for any individual week is printed on that week's own page rather than set out in advance, so a supporter planning a reminder campaign should read it off the live poll.

For a weekly series, the season rather than the single poll is the unit that matters. Eight consecutive seasons without a gap is the strongest available signal that the program is an established part of the tri-state fall calendar.

How a supporter votes this week, step by step

The action itself takes under a minute. Open the current ballot at poll.fm/17442863 while voting is open, read the nominee list, and select the player you want to back. The page pairs each player with a school name, so a supporter who only knows a standout by reputation can still match the right nominee. Submitting the form logs the vote on the Crowdsignal poll immediately, and the running totals sit on the same page.

The stated participation rule is once per hour, per IP address. That limit shapes every serious push. One network, one household, one vote per hour, so a family that wants to vote all evening from a single connection is really casting a fraction of what the same people would cast from separate connections. The organizer's published wording goes further than the hourly cap: voting activity is monitored, and any votes determined to be fraudulent or an attempt to manipulate the results may be removed. For a nominee's camp, that clause is the reason award vote services carry real risk on a monitored ballot like this one, since votes the organizer judges manipulative can be deleted outright.

Nomination works differently from voting. Any standout performance from the previous weekend can be put forward by emailing [email protected] before 7AM Sunday morning. That cutoff is what feeds the poll that launches that day, which means a nomination is a weekly decision too, not a season-long one. A player missed this week can be nominated the following Sunday if the performance justifies it.

Where this ballot sits among Ohio's player of the week votes

Ohio carries a crowded field of high school fan votes, and this program is the regional tri-state entry rather than a statewide one. Comparable programs on this site include the Cincinnati Enquirer Athlete of the Week, the Dayton Daily News High School Athlete of the Week, and the Dayton High School Football Player of the Week, each one run by a different publisher on its own schedule.

The differences are worth naming. The Cincinnati Enquirer ballot is a newspaper-run award with a metro focus, while this poll is sponsored by a local business and draws nominees from a three-state coverage area that crosses the Ohio line into Northern Kentucky and Eastern Indiana. Farther from the tri-state corner sit the Columbus Dispatch Athlete of the Week, the Akron-Area High School Athlete of the Week, and the Fox 8 FNTD Player of the Year Vote, which is a season-capping vote rather than a weekly series.

What separates the Mella Window ballot from all of them is its cadence and its reset. Eight weekly editions per season, a fresh nominee list every Sunday, and a result settled by Wednesday noon mean a supporter never waits long for the next chance, and no week's result lingers over the next one.