The Monroe County Preseason Offensive Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and what the Monroe County preseason offensive poll is

The supporters this ballot speaks to are high school football followers in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, the Pocono Mountain region that includes communities such as East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg. The program asks them one preseason question: which offensive player deserves to be called the county's Player of the Year before the fall schedule even begins. It is a fan honor, decided entirely by public support rather than by a coaches' panel or a media selection.

The organizer listed for the program is Monroe County, and the balloting is hosted by Crowdsignal on its poll.fm service at the address poll.fm/14242298. The mechanic is a straight fan vote with no entry round: a supporter opens the ballot, reviews the offensive nominees and submits a choice. There is no nomination phase printed on the ballot page and no separate entry form.

The nominees come from Monroe County high school programs, and the 2024 ballot spread its options across the offensive positions: running back, wide receiver, fullback and quarterback. Schools named on that ballot sit in East Stroudsburg, Stroudsburg and the surrounding county communities.

Facts at a glance

The dated history of the Monroe County preseason vote

Two editions of the program are on file, 2023 and 2024. Both anchored their voting window to August, which fits the preseason framing: the vote runs before the fall season, while rosters and expectations are still fresh. The 2024 ballot at poll.fm/14242298 is titled with a closed notice, so that cycle has finished and the page no longer accepts choices.

The 2024 race drew heavy participation. Its leading option finished with 65,279 votes, a 44 percent share of the total cast, which is a remarkable total for a single-county preseason honor and says something about how mobilized Monroe County football communities are when the ballot opens.

A few details never appear on the ballot page. It prints no opening or closing date for the August window, no category list beyond the single offensive honor, and no per-supporter voting rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer has also not published a year for the next edition, so nothing indicates whether the poll returns in 2025 or any later season.

What that leaves a supporter with is a simple picture: a county-scoped preseason honor, an August habit across two confirmed editions, and a closed 2024 ballot as the most recent confirmed event in the program's history.

How a supporter casts a vote in the Monroe County preseason poll

Voting is deliberately simple. The supporter opens the Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm/14242298, where the page carries the program's full name and, during a live window, the list of offensive nominees. Each nominee is presented with a name, a school and a position, so a backer can find their player by scanning for the school first, then the position.

Selecting a nominee and pressing the submit control is the whole act of voting. There is no nomination round to navigate, no separate registration step printed on the page, and no second category to work through. The ballot asks one question and accepts one kind of answer.

What the page does not spell out is just as relevant. No limit on how often one person may submit appears anywhere on the ballot, no daily-return instruction is printed, and no account requirement is described. That means the live form itself is the only authority on how many choices one person may submit and whether any verification is requested at submission time. A supporter planning repeat participation should read what the form asks on the day, because the organizer has published no rule text alongside the nominee list.

Timing matters too. Both confirmed editions anchored their window to August, and the 2024 ballot now shows as closed, so anyone arriving at poll.fm/14242298 today sees a finished race rather than an open one. The next live window, if the program runs again, would appear on a new or updated ballot page.

Where this ballot sits among Pennsylvania's fan votes

Monroe County's preseason offensive honor is one of several Pennsylvania fan votes in the same high school sports space, and what separates them is scope and publisher. Mr. PA Football plays at the statewide level, while the PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week is a publisher-run weekly honor tied to a news organization's coverage area.

Weekly-format programs behave differently from this one. The Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week and the Morning Call Athlete of the Week reset their ballots on a rolling basis during a season, whereas the Monroe County poll asks a single preseason question with one window in August. The Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year and the WICU Athlete of the Year cover other sports and other publishers entirely.

What makes the Monroe County ballot distinctive is its combination of a single county scope, an offensive-only preseason framing, and hosting on Crowdsignal's poll.fm service rather than on a newspaper's own contest system. Its 2024 edition also demonstrated the participation ceiling a county-wide football community can reach, with the leading nominee drawing a six-figure vote total. For a supporter, that means the competition is concentrated: every vote comes from the same relatively small pool of county communities, so organized school-level support moves the needle more than it would on a statewide ballot.

Strengthening support in a single-ballot preseason poll

Because this program is one question on one ballot with an August window, support building looks different from a weekly series where a fresh race starts every few days. A nominee's backers have one short window to concentrate their effort, and the county's tight geography works in their favor: East Stroudsburg, Stroudsburg and the county's other football communities can coordinate through team pages, booster groups and family networks without needing a statewide reach.

The organizer publishes no rule text about outside help on the ballot page, so nothing published restricts how supporters rally, and nothing promises that any particular tactic is sanctioned. The safe reading is that the live form's own behavior at submission is the only enforcement a backer will encounter.

For a broader toolkit that applies to any public fan vote, including this one, see our votes guide, and for the specific case of award-style ballots like this preseason honor, award vote support covers the format's mechanics.