On the rise
+30
rating points in a year
Their power rating has climbed 30 points across 4 contests since Jun 10, 2022 — from 1494 up to 1524.
- 4 contests since Jun 10, 2022
- now 1524
Dog Bone BBQ
Dog Bone BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2022 and 2023. Their best overall finish is 5th of 13 at the Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) (2022).
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1524
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Jun 10, 2022
latest Jun 9, 2023 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
3
60% of 5 contests
Best top-10 run
3
straight overall top-10s
Avg finish
top 39%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±72.16
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.98 · weakest Brisket (155.97)
Road miles
232
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 186 mi
Schedule strength
72%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1591)
Purse competed for
$67K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
295.37 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #69 (667 pts) | #101 (475 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Dog Bone BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Dog Bone BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 96 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,390 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1535
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before Dog Bone BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,401 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1524
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,386 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1524
They were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Dog Bone BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,383 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
Level with Dog Bone BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1530
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Dog Bone BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 164.5372 | 170.84 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 157.6224 | 168.67 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.9772 | 171.98 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9656 | 155.9656 | 155.97 | top 89% |
“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
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 43% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 35% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2022
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
5
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 5 calls
Opponents faced
127
finished ahead 108 times, behind 85
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20232 milestones
- Career-best overall score675.3372 Made for KC BBQ Championship (COMPETITORS SERIES)
- Most recent contest Made for KC BBQ Championship (COMPETITORS SERIES)
20226 milestones
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First call Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- First overall top-10 Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score342.2400 Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7028 Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1524) Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship Day 2
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.3 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship | Oct 28, 2022 |
| +8.8 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship Day 2 | Oct 29, 2022 |
| +6.4 | Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 9, 2022 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.5 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest | Jun 10, 2022 |
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
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 95.1% | 82% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2023 | Made for KC BBQ Championship (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Kansas City, MO | 24 / 44 (675.3372) | 5 (175.4172) | 17 (171.9772) | 17 (171.9772) | 39 (155.9656) |
| Oct 29, 2022 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship Day 2 🏅 Oak Grove, MO | 9 / 32 (326.7536) | 6 (169.1312) | 9 (157.6224) | — | — |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship 🏅 Oak Grove, MO | 6 / 40 (341.6568) | 3 (174.2856) | 10 (167.3712) | — | — |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Car-B-Que (BACKYARD ONLY) Belton, MO | 5 / 13 (342.2400) | 8 (164.5372) | 2 (177.7028) | — | — |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 17 / 29 (170.8456) | 5 (170.8456) | — | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.