High-water mark
687.3372
career-best overall
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.3372 at Ribs on the Ridge — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-02-14
Bull and Heifer BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-02-14
latest 2026-04-25
Best ToY finish
#942
Master 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 60%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
683.15
last 3 Master vs avg 683.15 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±4.06
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.31 · weakest Chicken (169.50)
Road miles
62
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
39%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)
Purse competed for
$28K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
683.15 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Going Yard BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Going Yard BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Bull and Heifer BBQ 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 153 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.
#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bull and Heifer BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Bull and Heifer BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before Bull and Heifer BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Bull and Heifer BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3639 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Bull and Heifer 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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 165.7028 | 169.50 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 165.1200 | 170.07 | top 62% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 168.5372 | 170.26 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 169.6800 | 173.31 | top 32% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 61% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 57% |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2025-02-14 → 2026-04-25
Busiest season
2025
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.31 · weakest Chicken (169.50)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
683.15
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
63
27–52 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
62
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1551
average field rating faced — tougher than 39% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$28,450
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2025-03-14 → 2026-04-25
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Ribs on the Ridge
- First call Ribs on the Ridge
- First overall top-10 Ribs on the Ridge
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score687.3372 Ribs on the Ridge
- Career-best overall score687.3372 Ribs on the Ridge
- Career-best single call (Brisket)176.0000 Ribs on the Ridge
- Peak power rating (1496) Ribs on the Ridge
- 2026
- Most recent contest Pitmasters in Paradise
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.3 | Pitmasters in Paradise | 2026-04-25 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.6 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds | 2025-03-14 |
| -4.4 | Ribs on the Ridge | 2025-02-14 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 95.1% | 95.1% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 95.5% | 94.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | Pitmasters in Paradise 🏅 Auburndale, FL | 20 / 35 (684.4684) | 23 (169.6800) | 11 (175.4172) | 22 (169.6912) | 20 (169.6800) |
| 2025-03-14 | Back Porch Jam at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds 🏅 Dover, FL | 10 / 15 (677.6456) | 12 (165.7028) | 12 (165.1200) | 6 (172.5600) | 4 (174.2628) |
| 2025-02-14 | Ribs on the Ridge 🏅 Haines City, FL | 9 / 16 (687.3372) | 9 (173.1200) | 12 (169.6800) | 11 (168.5372) | 2 (176.0000) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #942 (115 pts) | #1057 (105 pts) | #1144 (105 pts) | #843 (155 pts) | #753 (190 pts) |