High-water mark
675.9656
career-best overall
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9656 at Clayton BBQ Cook-off — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2019-07-12
Rack's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1484
peak 1484 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2018-07-13
latest 2019-07-26
Best ToY finish
#983
Master 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 71%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
637.74
last 4 Master vs avg 637.74 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±25.62
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 161.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.83)
Road miles
230
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 61 mi
Schedule strength
45%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1558)
Purse competed for
$31K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
637.74 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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 MARKET BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BULL MARKET BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SMOKIN' AXE BBQ in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
A July team
Top 63%
average finish in July
Something about July: average finish in the top 63% across 3 contests, versus top 71% the rest of the year.
- 3 July contests
- top 71% the rest of the year
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.
Rack's BBQ 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 136 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.
#3951 of the rated field
- Contests
- 11
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Rack's BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Rack's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
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#3972 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rack's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before Rack's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3935 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
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#3944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 154.2628 | 161.56 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 151.9888 | 157.83 | top 73% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 151.9540 | 160.26 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 145.6116 | 158.10 | top 66% |
“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 79% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 68% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton BBQ Cook-off | 2 | 10 | 0 | top 56% | 2019-07-12 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2018-07-13 → 2019-07-26
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
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 161.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.83)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
637.74
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
87
46–77 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
230
4 mapped stops · furthest 61 mi
Schedule strength
1558
average field rating faced — tougher than 45% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$31,200
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1484
peak 1484 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2018
- First tracked contest *2018 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- First call *2018 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Peak power rating (1492) *2018 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- 2019
- First overall top-10 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.9656 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best overall score675.9656 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.5600 Clayton BBQ Cook-off
- Most recent contest Gilroy Garli-Que BBQ Challenge
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7 | Clayton BBQ Cook-off | 2019-07-12 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.8 | Throwdown in the Vineyards | 2019-05-31 |
| -7.7 | *2018 Clayton BBQ Cook-off | 2018-07-13 |
| -4.7 | Gilroy Garli-Que BBQ Challenge | 2019-07-26 |
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 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 68% | 93.9% | 88.7% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 79% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-26 | Gilroy Garli-Que BBQ Challenge 🏅 Gilroy, CA | 28 / 36 (637.0172) | 18 (162.8800) | 29 (157.6916) | 33 (152.5028) | 19 (163.9428) |
| 2019-07-12 | Clayton BBQ Cook-off 🏅 Clayton, CA | 10 / 31 (675.9656) | 9 (172.5600) | 12 (167.9772) | 13 (166.8684) | 13 (168.5600) |
| 2019-05-31 | Throwdown in the Vineyards 🏅 Murphy, CA | 19 / 20 (603.8172) | 19 (154.2628) | 18 (151.9888) | 17 (151.9540) | 17 (145.6116) |
| 2018-07-13 | *2018 Clayton BBQ Cook-off Clayton, CA | 15 / 19 (634.1716) | 18 (156.5372) | 16 (153.6572) | 6 (169.7028) | 16 (154.2744) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #983 (266 pts) | #930 (311 pts) | #1071 (261 pts) | #1053 (261 pts) | #996 (291 pts) |