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.
Hog Leg BBQ 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 148 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Hog Leg BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before Hog Leg BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hog Leg BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Hog Leg BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 153.0972 | 153.69 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 157.1200 | 159.12 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 163.4400 | 164.58 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2172 | 142.2172 | 142.22 | top 93% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 66.3% | 66.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 143 / 167 (619.8744) | 139 (153.0972) | 101 (161.1200) | 94 (163.4400) | 155 (142.2172) |
| 2022-06-24 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 162 / 164 (477.1200) | 137 (154.2744) | 117 (157.1200) | 76 (165.7256) | — |