THE SHED BBQ JOINT

At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)

Rating

1505

peak 1505 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ

Contests

in the data

First seen

2013-07-19

latest 2021-11-12

Best ToY finish

#942

Master 2022

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

3 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 5 contests

Avg finish

top 59%

overall standings

Best overall

672.4800 / 720

Master · Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

Perfect 180s

Current form

591.22 ▲

last 5 Master vs avg 579.24 (+11.98)

Walk rate

40%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

177.7028

Chicken · Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival

Consistency

±119.95

std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Brisket

avg 167.52 · weakest Chicken (137.92)

Road miles

1,653

mi across 5 mapped stops · furthest 764 mi

Schedule strength

43%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)

Purse competed for

$9K

listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

GCs in 1 state-championship entries

Master avg

579.24 / 720

5 Master contests · 0 GCs

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Storylines (5 found in this team's record)

Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.

High-water mark

672.4800 career-best overall

93.4% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 672.4800 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 93.4% of a perfect 720.

Master
2015-10-23

A tough matchup

3–0 behind in the head-to-head

3 EYZ BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings

3 EYZ BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

The weak link

−29.6 points behind their best meat

Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 29.60 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 20% of the time against 40%.

Chicken avg 137.92
Brisket avg 167.52
1 calls in 5 entries

A strong matchup

3–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Across The Track Cook Off Team in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

The comeback

6.1 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 6.1 years, then back at Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival (2021-11-12).

last seen 2015-10-23
back 2021-11-12

Teams like this (closest power rating)

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.

THE SHED BBQ JOINT has 4 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 107 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.

PANCHO, CISCO, THE KID AND COMPANY

#3017 of the rated field

1505 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1512

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to THE SHED BBQ JOINT)

One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team THE SHED BBQ JOINT has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.

rated over 6 contests
last seen 2017-09-01

⚔ Head-to-head

Braizin' Assets

#3008 of the rated field

1505 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 6
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1505

0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to THE SHED BBQ JOINT)

Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before THE SHED BBQ JOINT's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 6 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

Fat Tiger BBQ Team

#3015 of the rated field

1505 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1508

No shared contest yet.

Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2026-05-29

⚔ Head-to-head

SMOKIN MEDICINE

#3010 of the rated field

1505 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1507

No shared contest yet.

Level with THE SHED BBQ JOINT on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2022-06-24

⚔ Head-to-head

Porky's Revenge

#3001 of the rated field

1505 ▼ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 60%
Peak: 1505

No shared contest yet.

Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.

rated over 5 contests
last seen 2019-10-18

⚔ Head-to-head

BAD AZZ

#2985 of the rated field

1506 ▲ 0 power rating

Contests: 5
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1513

No shared contest yet.

Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before THE SHED BBQ JOINT's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 5 contests

⚔ Head-to-head

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	5	1	1	177.7028	20.0000	137.92	top 56%
Pork Ribs	5	1	1	169.7028	139.9544	161.00	top 60%
Pork	5	0	0	170.8572	157.6688	161.33	top 72%
Brisket	5	2	1	170.8344	164.5828	167.52	top 43%

“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.

By state / province

Where	Contests	Avg finish
MO	2	top 56%
MS	1	top 44%
TN	1	top 42%
VA	1	top 94%

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	2	0	top 69%
Large (40+)	3	0	top 52%

The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)

On the trail 8.3 yrs 2013-07-19 → 2021-11-12

Busiest season 2015 3 contests

Contests a season 1.7 across 3 seasons in the data

Cooks most in MO 2 of 5 contests · 4 states/provinces in all

Contests visited 5 0 of them cooked more than once

Most-entered meat Chicken 5 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls

Strongest meat Brisket averages 167.52 · weakest Chicken (137.92)

Walk rate 40% a top-10 call in 2 of 5 contests

Overall top-10 rate 20% 1 of 5 contests

Master average 579.24 out of 720 · 5 contests · 0 GCs

Opponents faced 699 452–463 across every shared overall standing

Road miles 1,653 5 mapped stops · furthest 764 mi

Schedule strength 1556 average field rating faced — tougher than 43% of rated contests

Purse competed for $8,500 listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships 0 from 1 state-championship entries

Longest layoff 6.1 yrs 2015-10-23 → 2021-11-12

Power rating 1505 peak 1505 · #null of 6,413 rated

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

2013
Jul 19 First tracked contest Smoke on the Mountain - VA State BBQ Championship
Jul 19 First call Smoke on the Mountain - VA State BBQ Championship
2015
Oct 23 First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.4800 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Oct 23 Career-best overall score672.4800 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
2021
Nov 12 First overall top-10 Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival
Nov 12 Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7028 Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival
Nov 12 Peak power rating (1505) Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival
Nov 12 Most recent contest Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+8.3	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)	2015-10-23
+6.5	36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open	2015-10-03
+4.2	Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival	2021-11-12

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-13.7	Smoke on the Mountain - VA State BBQ Championship	2013-07-19

Category scores over time

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

How entries end (by meat)

Team of the Year rank by season

Season by season

Season	Contests	Top-10s	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2021	1	1	100%	top 44%	92.5%	92.5%
2015	3	0	0%	top 52%	93.4%	76.7%
2013	1	0	100%	top 94%	72.1%	72.1%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2021-11-12	Biloxi Blues & BBQ Festival 🏅 Biloxi, MS	8 / 18 (666.1712)	2 (177.7028)	12 (161.1200)	14 (159.9656)	8 (167.3828)
2015-10-23	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN	39 / 93 (672.4800)	55 (167.4056)	62 (165.6800)	27 (170.8572)	40 (168.5372)
2015-10-03	36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO	126 / 606 (336.5600)	109 (171.4172)	590 (139.9544)	452 (157.6688)	244 (164.5828)
2015-10-02	36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO	172 / 187 (647.2796)	183 (153.0856)	90 (168.5256)	168 (159.3828)	124 (166.2856)
2013-07-19	Smoke on the Mountain - VA State BBQ Championship Galax, VA	15 / 16 (519.3256)	15 (20.0000)	3 (169.7028)	14 (158.7884)	3 (170.8344)

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2022 ↗	Master	#942 (138 pts)	#743 (243 pts)	#1220 (108 pts)	#1210 (98 pts)	#963 (138 pts)
2015 ↗	Master	#2158 (60 pts)	#2209 (60 pts)	#2209 (60 pts)	#2225 (60 pts)	#2214 (60 pts)