L-L Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the L-L Football Player of the Week is

The L-L Football Player of the Week hands a Pennsylvania high school football honor to whichever player the audience picks. Each edition asks one question, which player delivered the best performance of the week, and lets the vote decide. The ballot lives on poll.fm/17418687, a Crowdsignal poll, which is the platform behind a large share of regional player-of-the-week polls across the country.

The nominee list is what gives the poll its local shape. The 2026 edition for games of Aug. 28-29 carried nominees from Pequea Valley, Solanco, Manheim Township, Wilson and Governor Mifflin, among others. Those school names, not any organizing body's own name, are how supporters recognize the poll during the season, because each weekly ballot is shared through the high school sports coverage that follows the teams.

In vertical terms this is a sport award in a best-of format: a shortlist of players, one winner, and a fresh shortlist the next cycle. It is free to enter a vote, free to share, and requires no account on the part of the supporter.

For a supporter or a small business that wants to stand behind a local nominee, the first task is simply finding the live poll in time, since a closed poll accepts nothing and the next one replaces it within the week.

The dated record for this poll

Confirmed editions of the L-L Football Player of the Week ran in 2019, 2023 and 2026. Those three years are what establish the program as annual rather than a one-time experiment: the poll has reappeared across multiple seasons of Pennsylvania high school football, anchored to the opening weeks of the schedule in August.

The 2026 edition is the most precisely dated. Its ballot covered games played Aug. 28-29, and the accompanying coverage stated that voting would remain open until 2 p.m. Tuesday. That rhythm, a weekend of Friday and Saturday games followed by a midweek afternoon deadline, is the shape each weekly edition follows during the season.

One figure survives from the closed 2026 poll: the leading nominee finished with 41 percent of 173 votes, and the runner-up took 24 percent of 101 votes. Totals like these are what make the poll quotable for the schools involved, since a player's standing is printed in plain numbers rather than left to an editor's judgment.

What the publisher has not printed anywhere on the ballot is how nominees are chosen from one week to the next, or whether the player-of-the-week series extends to other sports in the same footprint; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Because the series is annual, the reasonable expectation is a fresh ballot in 2027 once the next season kicks off, with the same Tuesday cutoff pattern as prior editions.

How a supporter votes right now

Voting is a two-step action on the Crowdsignal ballot. The supporter opens poll.fm/17418687, sees the nominee list with each player's high school beside the name, selects one nominee, and presses the vote control. There is no login, no signup and no confirmation step, so the whole action takes seconds on a phone.

The stated rule on repeat participation is unusually open. The publisher's own wording is that submissions may be repeated without restriction. In practice that means a supporter can submit, then return to the same page and submit again, as often as they wish until the deadline. No other player-of-the-week poll in this market states its repeat rule so plainly.

The deadline catches more voters than anything else. The 2026 ballot closed at 2 p.m. Tuesday, a cutoff that falls in the middle of a workday, so a fan base that waits until Tuesday evening has already lost the window. Shares sent Monday night land better than reminders sent Tuesday afternoon.

Results are visible on the poll itself, with each nominee's percentage and raw vote count displayed once the poll has closed, as the 41 percent and 173-vote figure from the Aug. 28-29 edition shows.

Anyone who wants a deeper playbook for mobilizing a fan base around this kind of unlimited-revote format can start with our votes guide, which covers share timing and reminder cadence for public polls.

How this poll sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

Pennsylvania carries a crowded field of player and athlete polls, and this one is distinguished by its narrow focus on the L-L football footprint and by its host platform, Crowdsignal, rather than a newspaper's own voting tool. Its nearest sibling in scope is the Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week, which covers the whole state rather than one league footprint.

The other neighbours answer different questions. Mr. PA Football is a statewide honor for the season rather than a weekly poll. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week follows the same weekly rhythm but in basketball and in a different conference. The Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year moves to a spring sport and a season-long horizon.

Two more siblings widen the frame beyond football entirely: the Morning Call Athlete of the Week rotates across sports under a single publisher, and the WICU Athlete of the Year is a television station's year-end honor from the other corner of the state.

Each of these runs under its own organizer with its own rules, so a tactic that fits this poll's unlimited-revote rule may not fit a neighbour's ballot. The practical difference for a supporter is the deadline: this poll's Tuesday 2 p.m. cutoff is shorter than any season-long award's window, which makes early sharing count double.

Strengthening support in an unlimited-revote poll

This ballot's mechanic rewards organized repetition more than any other lever. Because the publisher allows voting as often as a supporter wants and asks for no login, the winning nominee is usually the one whose school community votes in waves rather than once. The Tuesday 2 p.m. deadline compresses the whole effort into roughly three days after the Friday night games, so the strongest pattern is a Monday share push and a Tuesday morning reminder before the cutoff.

The organizer's published rules set the ceiling of what is permitted: unlimited votes from anyone, no registration. Anything beyond that, such as coordinated voting help from outside the fan base, is not addressed in the poll's own text, and no form of outside help can lock in a win, because rival fan bases vote just as hard. No service of any kind can guarantee a result in a contest decided by rival communities pushing back.

Supporters weighing paid help against this specific ballot can compare options on buy award votes, then weigh them against the free lever this poll hands every supporter already: the right to return and vote again until 2 p.m. Tuesday.