The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
ALWAYS SAUCED has finished one call ahead of Jolly Roger 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Jolly Roger
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1473
peak 1473 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-10-20
latest 2019-06-07
Best ToY finish
#1677
Master 2018
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 82%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
637.62
last 4 Master vs avg 637.62 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.18
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 164.29 · weakest Brisket (154.67)
Road miles
142
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
72%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1591)
Purse competed for
$10K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
637.62 / 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Three Hog Night Smokers ahead in 100% of their meetings
Three Hog Night Smokers has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 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.
Jolly Roger 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 149 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.
#4502 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
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#4475 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Jolly Roger did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4501 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Jolly Roger on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4497 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1473
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4515 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 147.9428 | 156.66 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.3088 | 158.3088 | 162.00 | top 65% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 154.2516 | 164.29 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 151.3944 | 154.67 | top 84% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 84% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 80% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 84% | 2018-10-19 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.6 yrs
2017-10-20 → 2019-06-07
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 164.29 · weakest Brisket (154.67)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
637.62
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
115
30–140 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
142
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1591
average field rating faced — tougher than 72% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$9,900
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1473
peak 1473 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- First call *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.7428 *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- Career-best overall score654.7428 *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- Career-best single call (Pork)173.7372 *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- Peak power rating (1496) *Harper County Bullseye BBQ
- 2019
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.4 | *Derby BBQ Festival | 2018-06-08 |
| -8.3 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2018-10-19 |
| -7.1 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest | 2019-06-07 |
| -3.6 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2017-10-20 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 87.8% | 87.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 74% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-07 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 29 / 39 (639.2688) | 30 (158.8000) | 28 (158.8460) | 16 (168.0000) | 31 (153.6228) |
| 2018-10-19 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 31 / 33 (624.5032) | 32 (147.9428) | 11 (170.3088) | 31 (154.2516) | 31 (152.0000) |
| 2018-06-08 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | 34 / 40 (631.9660) | 28 (161.1084) | 29 (158.3088) | 27 (161.1544) | 37 (151.3944) |
| 2017-10-20 | *Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 35 / 47 (654.7428) | 44 (158.8000) | 38 (160.5256) | 6 (173.7372) | 33 (161.6800) |
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 | #1677 (118 pts) | #1720 (118 pts) | #1325 (188 pts) | #1733 (118 pts) | #1703 (118 pts) |