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

What the MPC Football Player of the Week is, and how it differs from its Pennsylvania neighbours

Most fan-voted football honors in Pennsylvania are either a single season-long award or a media outlet's statewide franchise. This ballot is neither. The MPC Football Player of the Week works as a short-window weekly poll: a slate of high school football nominees goes up, the window runs a few days, the poll closes, and the sequence starts again with a new slate. The representative round of the series, poll 17444164, covered the window of Sept. 3-5 and is marked closed, which is the clearest available picture of the format.

The organizer is shown as MPC, initials the ballot page never expands, and Crowdsignal, reachable through poll.fm, hosts each vote at https://poll.fm/17444164. That address serves the newest ballot of the weekly sequence, so the page a supporter sees in season is the current week's vote rather than an archive of past weeks. Nominees are listed by player name alongside the school community each represents, drawn from high school programs across Pennsylvania.

Facts at a glance

Because the series is weekly, the closed Sept. 3-5 round should be read as a sample of the format, not as the whole program. The season's complete schedule of weekly ballots is not carried on the page.

The dated history of this weekly football series

Four edition years anchor the program: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Ballots ran on Crowdsignal under this program name in every one of those years, and the year-over-year pattern makes the series an annual fixture on the Pennsylvania fall calendar, with weekly rounds inside each season. The next expected cycle would fall in 2027, though MPC has not published a forward schedule, nor the exact dates of any future season's weekly windows; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The one dated window the published trail carries comes from the representative round: a vote for the MPC football player of the week covering Sept. 3-5, later marked closed. That window shows the shape of a weekly round, a few days of open voting early in September, followed by a closing and a fresh slate. It does not establish that every week of every season runs on the same days, and nothing on the page claims a fixed weekday rhythm.

What the organizer leaves off the ballot page matters as much as the dates it carries. No nomination method is printed, no eligibility terms for nominees appear, and no rule states how often a supporter may cast a vote or whether repeated voting from the same household is filtered. MPC has not published a season schedule or a set of written rules alongside the poll. Supporters who need those specifics must rely on whatever text accompanies each week's live form.

How a supporter votes on the current MPC ballot

The mechanic stays deliberately simple, which is why the poll travels well through school communities. A supporter opens the live ballot at poll.fm, sees that week's slate of nominees, clicks the selection beside the player they back, and submits. After voting, the page displays the running tally, with each nominee shown beside a percentage and a raw count. On the closed Sept. 3-5 round, that tally showed a clear leader well ahead of the rest of the slate, a typical pattern for a weekly high school poll where a single school community turns out early.

The poll.fm address given throughout this page serves the newest ballot of the series. Mid-season, that means the page is the current week's vote; between seasons, it may show a closed poll or a placeholder until the next fall slate goes up. The date of the next weekly ballot is not printed in advance on the page.

Practical points for supporters: the ballot accepts a selection and a submission, not a ranked list, so there is no strategic second choice. Each weekly poll stands alone, so support earned in a previous week does not carry forward, and a player who won a past week starts the next week at zero alongside everyone else. Because the window is only a few days, timing matters more than duration. A supporter who waits for the final evening may find the poll already closed, as happened on the Sept. 3-5 round.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania siblings

Pennsylvania has a crowded field of fan-voted sports honors, and this program differs from its neighbours on three axes: cadence, sponsor identity, and scope.

Cadence first. The Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week and the Mr. PA Football ballot run as football honors too, but this MPC series is the weekly variant: a new slate every few days through the fall, rather than a single cumulative vote. Weekly resets change strategy completely, because a lead never compounds across weeks the way it can on a season-long ballot.

Sponsor identity second. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week is anchored to a named news publisher, and the Morning Call Athlete of the Week likewise carries a masthead. This program's organizer appears only as MPC, initials the ballot never expands, and it shares the Mid-Penn geography that several of the nominee school communities on the Sept. 3-5 slate suggest.

Scope third. The Softball Player of the Year and the WICU Athlete of the Year cover different sports and seasons entirely, so a supporter's work on this football ballot carries no weight toward them. Every program answers to a separate organizer under separate rules.

Strengthening support in a weekly high school poll

Because this series resets weekly, the useful window is short. A push that starts the day the slate goes up reaches more of the school community while the poll is open than a push that waits. The most effective channels are the ones already organized around the team: the roster's family group chats, the booster club's social accounts, and the school's own game-week posts, each carrying the poll.fm link with a plain request to vote.

On outside help, the ballot page itself is silent: MPC prints no stated policy on purchased or automated voting for this poll. That silence is not permission. A weekly honor for high school athletes is the kind of ballot where an organizer can discard results it considers tainted, and no supporter can recover a week that has been thrown out. Whatever a supporter does, keep it inside what the live form allows, and see buy award votes for how paid support is generally structured before committing anything.