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.
Dr. BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 145 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Dr. BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dr. BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Dr. BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 6 years before Dr. BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dr. BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Dr. BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 158.8344 | 158.83 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0232 | 168.0232 | 168.02 | top 48% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 166.2856 | 166.29 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3600 | 159.3600 | 159.36 | top 80% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-28 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 47 / 60 (652.5032) | 54 (158.8344) | 29 (168.0232) | 35 (166.2856) | 48 (159.3600) |