A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
SWAMP BOYS ahead in 100% of their meetings
SWAMP BOYS has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
JUST GRILLIN
JUST GRILLIN is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2015. Their best overall finish is 31st of 49 at the Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest (2015). They finished #1970 in the 2013 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1475
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Nov 22, 2013
latest Nov 20, 2015 · 2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 76%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±18.12
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 158.98 · weakest Brisket (151.07)
Road miles
1,236
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 605 mi
Schedule strength
26%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1535)
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Master avg
622.69 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |
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JUST GRILLIN has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 147 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,392 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
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- Contests
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- GCs
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- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
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⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 152.5256 | 158.52 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0344 | 143.3716 | 158.98 | top 58% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7600 | 128.4456 | 154.12 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2172 | 143.8968 | 151.07 | top 76% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
More numbers
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
FL
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
156
finished ahead 55 times, behind 174
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20153 milestones
- Career-best overall score643.9884 Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork)169.7600 Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest
20132 milestones
- First tracked contest Plant City Pig Jam
- Peak power rating (1490) Plant City Pig Jam
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.5 | Plant City Pig Jam | Nov 22, 2013 |
| -7.3 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival | Jan 23, 2014 |
| -5.1 | Lakeland Pig Festival | Jan 30, 2015 |
| -1.7 | Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest | Nov 20, 2015 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 89.4% | 88.9% |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 83.3% | 83.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2015 | Plant City Pig Jam - State Championship BBQ Contest 🏅 Plant City, FL | 31 / 49 (643.9884) | 45 (152.5256) | 16 (168.0344) | 12 (169.7600) | 33 (153.6684) |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 46 / 62 (636.4112) | 26 (168.5256) | 44 (158.8228) | 45 (160.5600) | 52 (148.5028) |
| Sep 5, 2014 | Tony Stone-Cookeville Cookoff Cookeville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23, 2014 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 54 / 69 (610.6056) | 49 (158.2400) | 24 (165.7028) | 69 (128.4456) | 42 (158.2172) |
| Nov 22, 2013 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | 47 / 53 (599.7712) | 47 (154.8000) | 49 (143.3716) | 37 (157.7028) | 49 (143.8968) |