#4386 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headSticks ~N~ Bones
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1475
peak 1475 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2022-06-17
latest 2023-06-17
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.44 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.12)
Road miles
1,077
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 539 mi
Schedule strength
17%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1523)
Purse competed for
$20K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
651.89 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
313.93 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 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.
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.
Sticks ~N~ Bones 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 149 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.
#4379 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4394 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sticks ~N~ Bones on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4387 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4357 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1475
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 164.5256 | 166.44 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0116 | 143.3828 | 153.12 | top 81% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5144 | 156.5144 | 156.51 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 164.5372 | 164.54 | top 69% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 79% | 2023-06-17 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2022-06-17 → 2023-06-17
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 3 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.44 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.12)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
651.89
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
313.93
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
87
19–82 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
1,077
3 mapped stops · furthest 539 mi
Schedule strength
1523
average field rating faced — tougher than 17% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$20,040
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1475
peak 1475 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)167.9772 Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard)
- Peak power rating (1491) Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard)
- 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score651.8860 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Career-best overall score651.8860 Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest
- Most recent contest Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.5 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard) | 2022-06-17 |
| -9.4 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest | 2023-06-09 |
| -6.3 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-06-17 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 90.5% | 89.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-17 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Morris, IL | 25 / 33 (316.5028) | 16 (164.5256) | 29 (151.9772) | — | — |
| 2023-06-09 | Smoke on the Plains Derby BBQ & Music Fest 🏅 Derby, KS | 25 / 32 (651.8860) | 23 (166.8228) | 18 (164.0116) | 30 (156.5144) | 22 (164.5372) |
| 2022-06-17 | Morris Rhythm & BBQ Festival (Backyard) Morris, IL | 19 / 23 (311.3600) | 11 (167.9772) | 23 (143.3828) | — | — |