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

What the YAIAA Football Player of the Week Poll is and who runs it

The YAIAA Football Player of the Week Poll is a public-vote award that honors football players across the YAIAA league in Pennsylvania. Each week of the season the ballot gathers nominees from YAIAA member schools and lets any visitor vote for the player whose performance deserves the week's recognition. The vertical is sport, and the contest is an award rather than a ranking, with the voting format a straightforward public vote and no nomination round described in front of it.

Crowdsignal's poll.fm service carries the YAIAA ballot, and the series address lives at https://poll.fm/16201243. That address serves the current week's poll in the series, so a supporter arriving mid-season lands on whichever ballot is live rather than a static form. The most recent titled ballot in the series was Week 10, and it carried a closed marker, which is what a finished weekly poll shows on this host.

Nominee lines on the ballot pair a player with a school and a short statistical summary of the week's game, which is what gives supporters something concrete to vote on. Because the series is weekly, the nominee list turns over constantly, and the poll a supporter sees in September is a different ballot from the one running in October.

The dated history of the YAIAA poll, season by season

The confirmed edition years for the YAIAA Football Player of the Week Poll are 2012, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The 2012 entry is the earliest poll.fm ballot tied to the program name, and the 2024 and 2025 seasons are the two most recent runs, each traced across multiple weekly ballots. On the strength of those years the series qualifies as annual, and the next expected cycle is 2026.

Within a season, voting runs from August through October. That window matches the Pennsylvania high school football calendar, and the weekly ballots sit inside it one after another until the season ends. The Week 10 ballot, the latest titled poll in the series, had already closed when its page was read, which fits a series whose final ballots fall in the October stretch.

What YAIAA has not published anywhere alongside the poll is a set of precise opening and closing hours for every weekly ballot, a nomination procedure, or a per-supporter vote limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Platform-side round dates are equally absent, since no promotion schedule for this market exists on the poll host either.

For a supporter planning outreach, the practical reading of that history is simple: the season shape is known, the weekly rhythm is known, but the precise hours of any given ballot are only visible on the live page once that week's poll opens.

How a supporter votes on the current YAIAA ballot

Voting on the YAIAA Football Player of the Week Poll is a short sequence. The week's nominee list sits on the live poll.fm page, where a supporter selects the radio button beside their chosen player and presses the button under the list. The nominee lines carry the week's evidence: a school name, a summary of rushing or receiving yardage, touchdown counts and the final score of the game each nomination is drawn from.

A closed poll behaves differently. The Week 10 ballot, for example, showed its final standings instead of an open choice list, so a choice can only be cast while that week's window is running. Because the series address serves the latest ballot, anyone arriving after a poll closes will see the next week's poll once it opens, not the finished one.

The YAIAA ballot names no sign-in requirement, and no login step is advertised on the nominee page. It also sets out no ceiling on repeat visits by a supporter, so whatever pacing the host applies sits behind the scenes rather than in printed rules.

The practical habit for a weekly series is to return: each new ballot is a fresh poll with a fresh nominee list, so support for a player across a whole season means a visit per week, not a single vote in September carrying through to the October ballots.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

Pennsylvania has several public-vote sports programs, and the YAIAA poll occupies a distinct slot among them. Where the statewide Pennsylvania football weekly ballot draws its nominee pool from across the whole state, the YAIAA poll is anchored to one association's football league and runs on a weekly rhythm inside the August to October season.

The nearest siblings split by sport and by publisher. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week is a winter basketball ballot from a news publisher, while the Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year covers a spring sport on a yearly cycle. Both differ from the YAIAA poll's weekly football cadence.

The wider set rounds out the market. The Mr. PA Football award, the Morning Call Athlete of the Week and the WICU Athlete of the Year each answer to their own publisher and their own schedule, and none of them shares the YAIAA ballot's host or URL.

What makes the YAIAA poll different in practice is the combination of a league-level nominee pool, a weekly turnover of ballots on a single poll.fm series, and a season window that opens in August and closes in October. A supporter choosing where to spend effort should match the ballot to the player's sport and league first.

Strengthening support in a weekly YAIAA poll

A weekly ballot rewards fast, repeated outreach in a way a yearly award does not. In the YAIAA Football Player of the Week Poll a nominee's window is a single week inside the August to October season, so the useful moves are sharing the live poll.fm address the day the new ballot opens, pointing the school community at it through the channels that already reach families, and repeating the push for every new week rather than treating one ballot as the whole contest.

YAIAA publishes no stated policy on organized voting pushes alongside the poll, and the ballot sets out no per-supporter rule, so the live page is what governs each week. What is known is the shape: a plain public vote on Crowdsignal, a fresh nominee list each week, and a closed marker once a poll ends.

For a longer walkthrough of outreach suited to a short weekly window, see our votes guide, and for the award-ballot context around paid support, the award votes page covers the general ground. Neither changes the weekly rhythm: in this series, timing is the variable a supporter actually controls.