A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
SMOKE FREAKS ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKE FREAKS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
JUERGENS SMOKEHOUSE
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-06-23
latest 2018-06-23
Best ToY finish
#1524
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 87%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
625.04
last 3 Master vs avg 625.04 (-0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.19
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 159.86 · weakest Brisket (152.97)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
85%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1614)
Purse competed for
$15K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
625.04 / 720
3 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.
They cook the hard rooms
1614
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 85% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1614 power rating — a tougher draw than 85% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated 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.
JUERGENS SMOKEHOUSE has 3 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 146 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
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#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4209 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after JUERGENS SMOKEHOUSE did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#4210 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with JUERGENS SMOKEHOUSE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
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#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0344 | 151.3940 | 157.32 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.9144 | 148.6060 | 154.31 | top 65% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7716 | 151.4744 | 159.86 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 148.5828 | 152.97 | top 83% |
“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.
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2017-06-23 → 2018-06-23
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 159.86 · weakest Brisket (152.97)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
625.04
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
70
18–116 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1614
average field rating faced — tougher than 85% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$14,950
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown
- Career-best overall score631.5316 *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown
- Peak power rating (1494) *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown
- 2018
- Career-best single call (Chicken)168.0344 *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 2
- 2019
- Most recent contest Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.8 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 2 | 2018-06-23 |
| -7.3 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 | 2018-06-22 |
| -6.2 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown | 2017-06-23 |
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 | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 87.1% | 86.4% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-21 | Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 🏅 Belvidere, IL | — | — | 12 (152.5600) | — | — |
| 2018-06-23 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 2 Belvidere, IL | 41 / 44 (616.6976) | 25 (168.0344) | 41 (148.6060) | 40 (151.4744) | 41 (148.5828) |
| 2018-06-22 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Day 1 Belvidere, IL | 45 / 51 (626.8800) | 50 (151.3940) | 43 (153.1544) | 27 (162.3316) | 37 (160.0000) |
| 2017-06-23 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Belvidere, IL | 33 / 42 (631.5316) | 37 (152.5256) | 24 (162.9144) | 11 (165.7716) | 35 (150.3200) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1524 (120 pts) | #1598 (120 pts) | #1614 (120 pts) | #1610 (120 pts) | #1586 (120 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2271 (65 pts) | #1743 (130 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |