High-water mark
666.1600
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.1600 at *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival — 92.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2018-05-04
HOBBS BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1486
peak 1506 · rated over 6 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2018-05-04
latest 2022-10-08
Best ToY finish
#1448
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
636.62
last 3 Master vs avg 636.62 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±21.25
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.91 · weakest Brisket (152.35)
Road miles
136
mi across 6 mapped stops · furthest 41 mi
Schedule strength
31%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1541)
Purse competed for
$27K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
636.62 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
492.48 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
BULL IN THE RING ahead in 100% of their meetings
BULL IN THE RING has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2.4 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.4 years, then back at Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) (2021-10-01).
- last seen 2019-05-03
- back 2021-10-01
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.
144 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#3877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 43%
- Peak
- 1503
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to HOBBS BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HOBBS BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3845 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3846 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1517 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#3851 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before HOBBS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3839 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before HOBBS BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3860 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Level with HOBBS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 155.9084 | 162.91 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 154.2404 | 162.72 | top 60% |
| Pork | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 147.3712 | 162.74 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 148.0116 | 152.35 | top 71% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 0 | top 69% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 53% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.4 yrs
2018-05-04 → 2022-10-08
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OK
5 of 6 contests
Contests visited
6
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
6 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.91 · weakest Brisket (152.35)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 3 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Master average
636.62
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
492.48
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
155
93–136 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
136
6 mapped stops · furthest 41 mi
Schedule strength
1541
average field rating faced — tougher than 31% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$26,525
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.4 yrs
2019-05-03 → 2021-10-01
Power rating
1486
peak 1506 · #3857 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- First call *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score666.1600 *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- Career-best overall score666.1600 *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.1428 *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- Peak power rating (1506) *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival
- 2022
- Most recent contest Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.9 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival | 2018-05-04 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.6 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2 | 2022-10-08 |
| -3.6 | Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival | 2019-05-03 |
| -2.7 | *10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival | 2018-10-26 |
| -0.9 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1 | 2022-10-07 |
| -0.5 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) | 2021-10-01 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 73% | 139% | 137.4% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 135.5% | 135.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 87% | 87% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 55% | 92.5% | 89.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-08 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 2 Tahlequah, OK | 29 / 32 (489.0976) | 18 (169.1544) | 23 (163.9660) | 30 (155.9772) | — |
| 2022-10-07 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Day 1 Tahlequah, OK | 18 / 32 (500.4224) | 27 (161.6456) | 22 (163.9312) | 10 (174.8456) | — |
| 2021-10-01 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Tahlequah, OK | 11 / 20 (487.9316) | 8 (170.2628) | 17 (154.2404) | 12 (163.4284) | — |
| 2019-05-03 | Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival 🏅 | 39 / 56 (626.6168) | 44 (155.9084) | 25 (164.5256) | 38 (157.6800) | 47 (148.5028) |
| 2018-10-26 | *10th Annual Smokin the Fort BBQ & Music Festival Fort Gibson, OK | 20 / 27 (617.0856) | 18 (160.0000) | 14 (161.7028) | 22 (147.3712) | 20 (148.0116) |
| 2018-05-04 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 25 / 68 (666.1600) | 45 (160.5144) | 24 (167.9656) | 5 (177.1428) | 37 (160.5372) |
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 ↗ | Backyard | — | #224 (149 pts) | #239 (139 pts) | — | — |
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #172 (140 pts) | #242 (85 pts) | — | — |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #2010 (60 pts) |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1448 (137 pts) | #1491 (147 pts) | #1416 (172 pts) | #1122 (252 pts) | #1518 (137 pts) |