The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) (2021-04-09).
- last seen 2018-04-13
- back 2021-04-09
THE FAT HOG
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1472
peak 1472 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2017-01-06
latest 2021-04-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 100%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 144.53 · weakest Chicken (136.81)
Road miles
3,236
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 1610 mi
Master avg
581.66 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
262.70 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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 (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.
The long haul
3,236
road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,236 miles across 4 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,610 miles to I love Barbecue & Music Festival.
- 4 mapped stops
- furthest 1,610 mi
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.
THE FAT HOG has 2 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 140 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#4525 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after THE FAT HOG did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head#4529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1472
No shared contest yet.
Level with THE FAT HOG on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4514 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- 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#4501 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ 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-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4172 | 122.2056 | 136.81 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1544 | 140.4916 | 142.82 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140.5600 | 140.5600 | 140.56 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5256 | 144.5256 | 144.53 | top 97% |
“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 state / province
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| CO | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.3 yrs
2017-01-06 → 2021-04-09
Busiest season
2017
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
1 of 4 contests · 4 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 144.53 · weakest Chicken (136.81)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
581.66
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
262.70
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
49
0–49 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3,236
4 mapped stops · furthest 1,610 mi
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2018-04-13 → 2021-04-09
Power rating
1472
peak 1472 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest National Western BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best overall score581.6572 National Western BBQ Throwdown
- Career-best single call (Chicken)151.4172 National Western BBQ Throwdown
- 2021
- Most recent contest Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 73% | 73% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 80.8% | 80.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-09 | Rod Trowbridge Memorial Cook Airfield Flyin Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Derby, KS | 13 / 13 (262.6972) | 13 (122.2056) | 12 (140.4916) | — | — |
| 2018-04-13 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-07-07 | I love Barbecue & Music Festival Lake Placid, NY | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-01-06 | National Western BBQ Throwdown Denver, CO | 38 / 38 (581.6572) | 36 (151.4172) | 37 (145.1544) | 38 (140.5600) | 37 (144.5256) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 ↗ | Backyard | — | #224 (98 pts) | #220 (103 pts) | — | — |