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MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE

MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE is a competition barbecue team with 8 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. Their best overall finish is 23rd of 28 at the Harvest on Fire at the Winery (2022). They are ranked #5284 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#5,284
of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1456
peak 1456 · rated over 7 contests

Contests

8
in the data

First seen

Apr 26, 2019
latest Jul 8, 2022 · 3.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#856
Master 2020 · every season

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

0
0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
0% of 8 contests

Avg finish

top 87%
overall standings

Best overall

671.3256 / 720
Master · Harvest on Fire at the Winery

Perfect 180s

0

Current form

655.68 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 640.71 (+14.97)

Walk rate

13%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

174.2856
Chicken · Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1

Consistency

±28.46
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork
avg 162.26 · weakest Brisket (158.33)

Road miles

441
across 8 mapped stops · furthest 119 mi

Schedule strength

87%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1619)

Purse competed for

$39K
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅
won from 6 state-championship entries

Master avg

640.71 / 720
7 Master contests · 0 GCs

Storylines (4 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

High-water mark

671.3256 career-best overall

93.2% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 671.3256 at Harvest on Fire at the Winery — 93.2% of a perfect 720.

  • Master
  • Jul 8, 2022

A tough matchup

7–0 behind in the head-to-head

SMOKE-N-PEPPERS ahead in 100% of their meetings

SMOKE-N-PEPPERS has come out ahead in 7 of their 7 shared contests.

A strong matchup

3–0 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 100% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of Team Money Muscle in 3 of their 3 shared contests.

They cook the hard rooms

1619 average field rating faced

A tougher draw than 87% of rated fields

The fields they enter average a 1619 power rating — a tougher draw than 87% of every rated contest in the data.

  • 7 rated contests

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2022 ↗ Master #975 (123 pts) #1146 (113 pts) #793 (238 pts) #969 (148 pts) #871 (173 pts)
2021 ↗ Master #917 (120 pts) #699 (235 pts) #1005 (125 pts) #960 (120 pts) #957 (120 pts)
2020 ↗ Master #856 (60 pts) #896 (60 pts) #913 (60 pts) #899 (60 pts) #883 (60 pts)
2019 ↗ Master #1607 (116 pts) #1440 (151 pts) #1732 (111 pts) #1573 (121 pts) #1533 (121 pts)

Overall rank by season

Teams like this (closest power rating)

The teams rated closest to MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE, each with one reason worth a look.

127 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.

Stumpy Coals
#5,291 of the rated field
1456 power rating
Contests
7
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1511

They've been 1511 at their best, 55 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.

  • rated over 7 contests
  • last seen Aug 23, 2024
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HOWE ABOUT THAT BBQ
#5,270 of the rated field
1457 power rating
Contests
7
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1457

Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

  • rated over 7 contests
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HOG FEATHERS
#5,299 of the rated field
1456 power rating
Contests
7
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1456

Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

  • rated over 7 contests
  • last seen Oct 5, 2018
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WOTS SMOKERS
#5,297 of the rated field
1456 power rating
Contests
8
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1456

They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE's first contest.

  • rated over 8 contests
  • last seen Aug 16, 2024
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DRUM-B-QUE
#5,295 of the rated field
1456 power rating
Contests
8
GCs
0
Top-10s
0%
Peak
1456

Level with MARLEY'S GRILL HOUSE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

  • rated over 8 contests
  • last seen Aug 21, 2020
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HELLUVA 'Q
#5,280 of the rated field
1456 power rating
Contests
8
GCs
0
Top-10s
25%
Peak
1456

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

  • rated over 8 contests
  • last seen Jun 3, 2017
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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

OpponentMeetingsAheadBehindWin rate
SMOKE-N-PEPPERS 7 0 7 0% ⚔ compare
THUNDER HOG BBQ 6 0 6 0% ⚔ compare
WeQ4U 6 0 6 0% ⚔ compare
FARMER'S RETREAT SMOKIN BARBEQUE 5 1 4 20% ⚔ compare
LOADED-N-ROLLIN BBQ 5 1 4 20% ⚔ compare
BLUE CHIP BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
LOCAL YOKELS BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
THE BBQ BUS 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
TIRE SMOKE BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
SMOKIN HOOSIERS 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
JANKY LEG BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
Risky Brisket 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
TRIPLE H BBQ 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare
CONTINENTAL BARBEQUE CO. 5 0 5 0% ⚔ compare

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 7 1 0 0 174.2856 134.1828 161.77 top 69%
Pork Ribs 8 0 0 0 167.9656 139.3944 159.41 top 77%
Pork 7 0 0 0 168.5600 155.9772 162.26 top 78%
Brisket 7 0 0 0 171.9772 146.8116 158.33 top 82%

“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 field size and state

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Medium (20–39)30top 90%
Large (40+)40top 85%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

WhereContestsGCsAvg finish
IN60top 88%
IL10top 82%

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

ContestVisitsBestGCsAvg finishLast visit
Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1 2 32 0 top 77% Jun 17, 2022

More numbers

Busiest season 2022 3 contests
Contests a season 2 across 4 seasons in the data
Most contests held in IN 7 of 8 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited 6 1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat Pork Ribs 8 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced 159 finished ahead 40 times, behind 261
Longest layoff 1.1 yrs May 10, 2019 → Jun 19, 2020

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20222 milestones
  1. Career-best overall score671.3256 Harvest on Fire at the Winery
  2. Most recent contest Harvest on Fire at the Winery
20213 milestones
  1. First call Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1
  2. First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.2288 Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1
  3. Career-best single call (Chicken)174.2856 Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1
20192 milestones
  1. First tracked contest Smokin For Garrett
  2. Peak power rating (1488) Smokin For Garrett

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📉 Toughest weekends

SwingContestDate
-11.9Smokin For GarrettApr 26, 2019
-11.6Rockin BBQMay 10, 2019
-7.4Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 2Jun 19, 2021
-5.3Covid-Que Relief (Day 1)Jun 19, 2020
-3.2Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1Jun 18, 2021

Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)

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

SeasonContestsGCsTop-10sCategory winsWalk rateAvg finishBest overall (% of perfect)Avg overall (% of perfect)
20223000 0% top 79% 93.2% 92.6%
20212000 50% top 87% 91.4% 90.2%
20201000 0% top 86% 89.8% 89.8%
20192000 0% top 96% 87.1% 83.8%

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
Jul 8, 2022 Harvest on Fire at the Winery 🏅 Marshall, IL 23 / 28 (671.3256) 28 (162.8228) 19 (167.9656) 18 (168.5600) 13 (171.9772)
Jun 17, 2022 Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1 🏅 Franklin, IN 32 / 42 (661.5772) 26 (170.2628) 29 (163.9544) 34 (163.3944) 32 (163.9656)
Jun 17, 2022 Hoosier BBQ Classic (One Meat Ribs) Franklin, IN — — 16 (166.8344) — —
Jun 19, 2021 Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 2 🏅 Franklin, IN 35 / 37 (640.9940) 37 (158.2512) 34 (158.8228) 31 (163.9656) 33 (159.9544)
Jun 18, 2021 Hoosier BBQ Classic Day 1 🏅 Franklin, IN 40 / 51 (658.2288) 6 (174.2856) 24 (167.4516) 36 (163.4172) 47 (153.0744)
Jun 19, 2020 Covid-Que Relief (Day 1) Franklin, IN 59 / 69 (646.2856) 30 (168) 56 (158.8688) 51 (161.6568) 59 (157.7600)
May 10, 2019 Rockin BBQ 🏅 Warsaw, IN 42 / 42 (579.2116) 42 (134.1828) 42 (139.3944) 34 (158.8228) 41 (146.8116)
Apr 26, 2019 Smokin For Garrett 🏅 Boonville, IN 24 / 26 (627.3600) 17 (164.6172) 25 (151.9772) 23 (155.9772) 23 (154.7884)

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