High-water mark
688.5144
career-best overall
95.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 688.5144 at City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off — 95.6% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2021-06-11
ON A WHIM
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1505
peak 1508 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-06-11
latest 2021-10-16
Best ToY finish
#491
Master 2021
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
671.90
last 3 Master vs avg 671.90 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±14.88
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 171.22 · weakest Brisket (163.57)
Road miles
70
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 70 mi
Schedule strength
82%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1608)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
671.90 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Still Workin' On It ahead in 100% of their meetings
Still Workin' On It has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1608
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 82% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1608 power rating — a tougher draw than 82% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated 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.
ON A WHIM has 3 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 109 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.
#3015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3010 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with ON A WHIM on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3001 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before ON A WHIM's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3022 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 7 years before ON A WHIM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before ON A WHIM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3019 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before ON A WHIM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 163.9772 | 169.50 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 177.7028 | 162.8344 | 171.22 | top 42% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 158.8228 | 167.60 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 155.8968 | 163.57 | 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.
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.3 yrs
2021-06-11 → 2021-10-16
Busiest season
2021
3 contests
Cooks most in
VA
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 171.22 · weakest Brisket (163.57)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Master average
671.90
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
54
36–56 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
70
3 mapped stops · furthest 70 mi
Schedule strength
1608
average field rating faced — tougher than 82% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$11,800
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1505
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- First call City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- First overall top-10 City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score688.5144 City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Career-best overall score688.5144 City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7028 City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Peak power rating (1508) City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off
- Most recent contest Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.6 | City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off | 2021-06-11 |
| +3 | Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague | 2021-10-16 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.4 | Nightmare Before Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague | 2021-10-15 |
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 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 95.6% | 93.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-16 | Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague 🏅 Galax, VA | 11 / 15 (674.7660) | 11 (169.6800) | 2 (173.1316) | 9 (170.8456) | 14 (161.1088) |
| 2021-10-15 | Nightmare Before Zom-B-Q-Rufus Teague 🏅 Galax, VA | 14 / 15 (652.4112) | 5 (174.8572) | 15 (162.8344) | 15 (158.8228) | 14 (155.8968) |
| 2021-06-11 | City of Welch Coalfields Cook-off 🏅 Welch, WV | 6 / 15 (688.5144) | 11 (163.9772) | 2 (177.7028) | 9 (173.1200) | 4 (173.7144) |
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 ↗ | Master | #491 (360 pts) | #496 (385 pts) | #362 (570 pts) | #530 (340 pts) | #504 (380 pts) |