The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
PAPA BOBS BACKYARD BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 129 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team PAPA BOBS BACKYARD BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after PAPA BOBS BACKYARD BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PAPA BOBS BACKYARD BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 161.0856 | 165.98 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 157.6800 | 162.26 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0972 | 137.7144 | 143.41 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.2000 | 140.5600 | 148.88 | top 67% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke on the River | 2 | 24 | 0 | top 65% | 2016-10-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-14 | Smoke on the River Sacramento, CA | 24 / 38 (622.8344) | 20 (161.0856) | 11 (166.8344) | 36 (137.7144) | 17 (157.2000) |
| 2015-09-18 | Smoke on the River Sacramento, CA | 33 / 49 (618.2172) | 4 (170.8800) | 27 (157.6800) | 43 (149.0972) | 44 (140.5600) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2240 (65 pts) | #2207 (85 pts) | #1818 (130 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2112 (100 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #1366 (210 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |