High-water mark
680.4684
career-best overall
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4684 at *Jack Town Throw Down — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-03-31
PELLET PORKERS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1507 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-05-20
latest 2017-09-16
Best ToY finish
#2951
Master 2016
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
660.58
last 4 Master vs avg 660.58 (-0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±12.67
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 170.26 · weakest Pork (159.09)
Road miles
190
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 135 mi
Schedule strength
66%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1583)
Master avg
660.58 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (2 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
CAJUN BLAZE ahead in 100% of their meetings
CAJUN BLAZE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
PELLET PORKERS 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 123 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.
#3388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Level with PELLET PORKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3396 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3391 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4056 | 166.2628 | 170.26 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 157.6688 | 163.97 | top 66% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 153.0856 | 159.09 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 163.9656 | 167.26 | top 51% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 56% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY2) (JUDGES LIST FULL) | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 79% | 2017-09-16 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.3 yrs
2016-05-20 → 2017-09-16
Busiest season
2017
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MS
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 170.26 · weakest Pork (159.09)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
660.58
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
70
41–57 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
190
4 mapped stops · furthest 135 mi
Schedule strength
1583
average field rating faced — tougher than 66% of rated contests
Power rating
1496
peak 1507 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score660.3884 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
- 2017
- First call *Jack Town Throw Down
- First overall top-10 *Jack Town Throw Down
- Career-best overall score680.4684 *Jack Town Throw Down
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 *Jack Town Throw Down
- Peak power rating (1507) *Jack Town Throw Down
- Most recent contest *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY2) (JUDGES LIST FULL)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.5 | *Jack Town Throw Down | 2017-03-31 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.3 | *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY2) (JUDGES LIST FULL) | 2017-09-16 |
| -6.4 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2016-05-20 |
| -1.4 | *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY 1) (JUDGES LIST FULL) | 2017-09-15 |
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)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 58% | 94.5% | 91.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-16 | *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY2) (JUDGES LIST FULL) Ridgeland, MS | 16 / 17 (645.6004) | 11 (167.9772) | 17 (157.6688) | 17 (153.0856) | 10 (166.8688) |
| 2017-09-15 | *Smokin on the Rez BBQ and Music Festival (DAY 1) (JUDGES LIST FULL) Ridgeland, MS | 14 / 22 (655.8628) | 11 (166.2628) | 13 (162.2516) | 15 (163.3828) | 13 (163.9656) |
| 2017-03-31 | *Jack Town Throw Down Jackson, MS | 6 / 34 (680.4684) | 3 (175.4056) | 10 (170.8572) | 26 (161.0856) | 4 (173.1200) |
| 2016-05-20 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Southhaven, MS | 25 / 29 (660.3884) | 16 (171.4056) | 22 (165.0972) | 28 (158.8000) | 21 (165.0856) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2951 (54 pts) | #2146 (99 pts) | #2304 (69 pts) | #2950 (54 pts) | #2277 (74 pts) |