High-water mark
672.5260
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.5260 at Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2023-04-28
Wise Smoke Ranch
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1520
peak 1520 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-04-29
latest 2023-04-28
Best ToY finish
#1055
Master 2023
Grand champs
1
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 171.42 · weakest Brisket (161.70)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
672.53 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
325.63 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 1 GC
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 (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.
State champions
1
state championships won
They've taken 1 state championship from 2 entries at contests carrying the title.
- 2 state-championship entries
Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 29 at their very first tracked contest, 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship (2022-04-29).
- 2022-04-29
- 29-team field
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.
Wise Smoke Ranch 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 77 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.
#2487 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 30%
- Peak
- 1520
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Wise Smoke Ranch)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Wise Smoke Ranch has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#2498 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
Level with Wise Smoke Ranch on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2507 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2497 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Wise Smoke Ranch's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2500 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Wise Smoke Ranch's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.3088 | 157.6572 | 165.98 | top 18% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 167.9772 | 165.0972 | 166.54 | top 41% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 161.7028 | 161.70 | top 56% |
“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 (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2022-04-29 → 2023-04-28
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 171.42 · weakest Brisket (161.70)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Wins it all
50%
1 Grand Championship · 0 reserve
First title
2022-04-29
3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
Master average
672.53
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
325.63
out of 360 · 1 contest · 1 GC
Opponents faced
51
49–12 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6,000
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
1
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1520
peak 1520 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First call 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First category win (Pork Ribs) 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First overall top-10 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First overall podium 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First Grand Championship 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First state championship 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score325.6344 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- 2023
- Career-best overall score672.5260 Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.3088 Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-28 | Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship 🏅 Lodi, CA | 13 / 27 (672.5260) | 6 (174.3088) | 21 (165.0972) | 9 (171.4172) | 15 (161.7028) |
| 2022-04-29 | 3rd Annual Lodi BeerFest & BBQ Championship 🏅 Lodi, CA | 1 / 29 (325.6344) | 4 (157.6572) | 1 (167.9772) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1055 (112 pts) | #876 (167 pts) | #1383 (72 pts) | #928 (137 pts) | #1143 (102 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #185 (183 pts) | #150 (258 pts) | — | — |