A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Bleacher Bums BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bleacher Bums BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Overcurrent BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1495
peak 1510 · rated over 5 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2023-07-15
latest 2026-05-01
Best ToY finish
#261
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 62%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
651.34
last 3 Master vs avg 651.34 (-0.00)
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±2.54
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.89 · weakest Brisket (159.22)
Road miles
292
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 90 mi
Schedule strength
49%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1564)
Purse competed for
$27K
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
651.34 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
339.14 / 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.
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 strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Drum Smoke BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Announced themselves early
4th
at their very first contest
Finished 4 of 16 at their very first tracked contest, Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023-07-15).
- 2023-07-15
- 16-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.
123 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#3406 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Overcurrent BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3404 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3402 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before Overcurrent BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3415 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1495
No shared contest yet.
Level with Overcurrent BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3414 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Overcurrent BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3422 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Overcurrent BBQ'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 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 164.5256 | 168.89 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 158.2516 | 164.39 | top 67% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 157.6684 | 163.22 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.3544 | 153.6344 | 159.22 | top 88% |
“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 contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 81% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 4 | 0 | top 28% | 2024-07-20 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.8 yrs
2023-07-15 → 2026-05-01
Busiest season
2026
2 contests
Contests a season
1.8
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
4
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
7 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.89 · weakest Brisket (159.22)
Walk rate
29%
a top-10 call in 2 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
29%
2 of 7 contests
Master average
651.34
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
339.14
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
120
49–124 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
292
7 mapped stops · furthest 90 mi
Schedule strength
1564
average field rating faced — tougher than 49% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$27,460
listed at 7 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2024-07-20 → 2025-08-01
Power rating
1495
peak 1510 · #3424 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score336.5828 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1510) Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.7028 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Career-best overall score654.1488 All American BBQ Throwdown
- 2026
- Most recent contest Smoke in the Mitten
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +9.5 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-07-15 |
| +7.9 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-07-20 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.5 | Smoke in the Mitten | 2026-05-01 |
| -8 | GLBBQA Spring Fling | 2024-04-19 |
| -5.1 | All American BBQ Throwdown | 2025-08-01 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 90% | 90% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 57% | 94.9% | 92.7% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | Smoke in the Mitten 🏅 Westland, MI | 32 / 34 (647.9884) | 25 (164.5256) | 30 (161.6800) | 32 (159.4284) | 29 (162.3544) |
| 2026-05-01 | Smoke in the Mitten (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 21 (161.1316) | — | — |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Westland, MI | 34 / 43 (654.1488) | 28 (168.5372) | 34 (166.2744) | 38 (157.6684) | 37 (161.6688) |
| 2025-08-01 | All American BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT RIBS) Westland, MI | — | — | 15 (169.1316) | — | — |
| 2024-07-20 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 7 / 23 (341.6916) | 7 (173.7028) | 10 (167.9888) | — | — |
| 2024-04-19 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 52 / 62 (651.8748) | 41 (167.4172) | 55 (158.2516) | 23 (172.5716) | 57 (153.6344) |
| 2023-07-15 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 4 / 16 (336.5828) | 5 (170.2856) | 5 (166.2972) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #1153 (59 pts) | #1210 (59 pts) | #860 (128 pts) | #1165 (59 pts) | #1152 (59 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1221 (60 pts) | #895 (164 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #261 (153 pts) | #274 (153 pts) | #309 (123 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1189 (70 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |