High-water mark
677.1088
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.1088 at *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-08
Outlaws
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1483
peak 1508 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2013-05-10
latest 2022-04-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.71 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.83)
Road miles
699
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 575 mi
Schedule strength
28%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1538)
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
659.13 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
235.10 / 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 (2 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.
The comeback
4.3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.3 years, then back at *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) (2017-09-08).
- last seen 2013-05-10
- back 2017-09-08
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.
Outlaws has 4 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 133 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.
#3983 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3990 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Outlaws did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3954 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Outlaws on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3972 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Outlaws's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3987 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Outlaws'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2854 | 160.5600 | 163.05 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 150.2516 | 159.83 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 162.8570 | 169.71 | top 32% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 148.5714 | 160.27 | top 46% |
“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 (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
9 yrs
2013-05-10 → 2022-04-22
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 4 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.71 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.83)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
659.13
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
235.10
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
113
38–86 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
699
4 mapped stops · furthest 575 mi
Schedule strength
1538
average field rating faced — tougher than 28% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$7,800
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
4.3 yrs
2013-05-10 → 2017-09-08
Power rating
1483
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Boots & BBQ Festival
- 2017
- First call *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- First overall top-10 *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score677.1088 *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best overall score677.1088 *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best single call (Pork)176.5600 *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- Peak power rating (1508) *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- 2022
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (Backyard)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.6 | *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) | 2017-09-08 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.6 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (Backyard) | 2022-04-22 |
| -11.2 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-04-23 |
| -4.4 | Boots & BBQ Festival | 2013-05-10 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 44.3% | 44.3% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 21% | 94% | 94% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 89% | 89% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-22 | Smoke on the Water BBQ Festival (Backyard) Florence, AL | 34 / 34 (159.3828) | — | 27 (159.3828) | — | — |
| 2021-04-23 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) Florence, AL | 26 / 29 (310.8116) | 23 (160.5600) | 27 (150.2516) | — | — |
| 2017-09-08 | *Derby BBQ Festival(JUDGES FULL) Derby, KS | 6 / 29 (677.1088) | 21 (162.2972) | 11 (166.2744) | 3 (176.5600) | 4 (171.9772) |
| 2013-05-10 | Boots & BBQ Festival Claremore, OK | 24 / 36 (641.1424) | 20 (166.2854) | 22 (163.4286) | 19 (162.8570) | 28 (148.5714) |