BFP Boys Soccer Preseason Player of the Year Ballot: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the BFP boys soccer preseason ballot is

The BFP Boys Soccer Preseason Player of the Year Ballot is a public-vote award for Vermont high school boys soccer. The organizer is BFP, and the vote runs on Crowdsignal, the polling platform behind the poll.fm addresses. The current ballot lives at poll.fm/15912409, and that single address is where the whole program happens: nominees, the vote and the tally all sit on that one page.

The program belongs to the preseason slot in the Vermont high school sports calendar. Rather than ranking teams or naming an all-state list after the season, BFP asks readers before play begins who will be the boys soccer player of the year, and lets the public answer. The nominee list is drawn from schools around the state, and the ballot shows each name with the community the player represents.

The format is deliberately simple. There is one question, one list of names and one vote button. No account is required, no nomination round runs in public, and no entry form stands between a supporter and the vote. That simplicity is typical of Crowdsignal ballots used by regional sports publishers, where the goal is to move a large casual readership through a single click.

The table below collects the fixed facts of the program in one place.

The dated facts for this ballot

Editions of the program are confirmed for 2022 and 2025. That gap between the first confirmed year and the most recent one is wider than a strict every-single-year run would produce, so the page treats the ballot as annual based on the recurrence of the program rather than on an unbroken string of dated editions. The 2025 edition is the one sitting under the poll.fm page's closed state, with the full nominee slate and the final tally still visible on that ballot.

The current cycle carries the most precise dates. Voting opened on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, and continues through 9 p.m. on Tuesday, August 25, 2026. That is a seven-day preseason window, opening just ahead of the Vermont fall high school schedule and closing on a Tuesday evening, which is the moment the tally freezes and BFP's preseason result becomes final.

Not everything a voter might want is published. The ballot page prints no list of award categories beyond the single player of the year question, and it prints no rules text on eligibility or repeat voting. BFP has not printed a per-supporter vote limit or an eligibility rule on the ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

One more limitation matters for reading the program's history: the confirmation of 2022 and 2025 comes from the ballot years themselves, and no summary page from the organizer lists the program's full run. If an edition between those years or after 2026 matters to you, the publisher's own soccer coverage is the place the result would appear.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

Voting takes place entirely on the Crowdsignal page at poll.fm/15912409. A supporter opens the ballot, sees a single question about the preseason player of the year, and a list of nominees underneath it. Each nominee is displayed with the Vermont school or community he represents, so the list doubles as a map of the statewide field.

The action itself is one selection. The ballot uses radio buttons, so a supporter marks one name and presses the vote button below the list. There is no write-in box on this format and no second round: the printed names are the only options that can receive votes. Once the choice is submitted, the platform shows the running tally, which is how the preseason race becomes visible to everyone following along.

Timing is the constraint that shapes behavior. The window runs from August 19 through 9 p.m. on August 25, 2026, so support has to be organized inside seven days. After the close, the page flips to a poll closed state and the result stands. A late supporter who arrives after that moment sees the final tally rather than a live ballot, and the next chance to vote is the following preseason edition.

Two practical notes follow from the format. First, because Crowdsignal requires no login, the ease of voting is high and the barrier is only awareness of the link. Second, because no rules text appears on the page, a supporter planning any organized push should read what the ballot itself allows before acting, rather than assuming a rule imported from some other publisher's vote.

How this ballot sits beside its Vermont neighbours

The BFP boys soccer ballot is one of several public votes covering Vermont high school sport, and its neighbours define what makes it distinctive. The Vermont Varsity Insider Boys Athlete of the Week and its fall football and spring editions run weekly during their seasons, resetting every seven days. The girls athlete of the week does the same on the girls' side, and the Caledonian-Record Athlete of the Week covers a different publisher's weekly rhythm. There is also a Vermont softball breakout player of the year vote on the spring schedule.

Against that field, the BFP soccer ballot differs on three axes. It is preseason rather than in-season, so it asks readers to predict a season instead of rewarding the week that just ended. It is sport-specific, devoted only to boys soccer, where the weekly ballots span all sports. And it is annual in cadence, giving it a single long window each August rather than a rolling series of short ones.

For a nominee's supporters, that shape changes the tactics. A weekly vote rewards a fast burst over two or three days; a preseason ballot like this one spreads the same energy across a full seven-day window that closes at 9 p.m. on August 25. And because the result is a preseason prediction rather than a weekly honor, the recognition a nominee competes for is the season-long label of player of the year, which is why communities around schools in places such as South Burlington, Colchester, Essex, Milton and West Rutland treat the August vote as the first contest of the fall.