High-water mark
676.4684
career-best overall
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.4684 at Smoking in the Woods — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-07-22
Big and Bigger BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1511 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2016-07-22
latest 2021-09-11
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.48 · weakest Pork (159.40)
Road miles
68
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
41%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1554)
Purse competed for
$1K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Master avg
647.93 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
314.31 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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.
The comeback
4.2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.2 years, then back at So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) (2021-09-11).
- last seen 2017-07-07
- back 2021-09-11
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 18 at their very first tracked contest, Smoking in the Woods (2016-07-22).
- 2016-07-22
- 18-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.
Big and Bigger 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 162 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big and Bigger BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3641 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1490
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ 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, 3 years before Big and Bigger 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 | 167.9656 | 153.7028 | 160.94 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.9772 | 154.8460 | 162.48 | top 50% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 151.3944 | 159.40 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 152.0000 | 160.56 | top 63% |
“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 54% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
5.1 yrs
2016-07-22 → 2021-09-11
Busiest season
2021
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
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
Pork Ribs
averages 162.48 · weakest Pork (159.40)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Master average
647.93
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
314.31
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
47
15–35 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
68
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1554
average field rating faced — tougher than 41% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$1,225
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
4.2 yrs
2017-07-07 → 2021-09-11
Power rating
1490
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Smoking in the Woods
- First call Smoking in the Woods
- First overall top-10 Smoking in the Woods
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score676.4684 Smoking in the Woods
- Career-best overall score676.4684 Smoking in the Woods
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.9772 Smoking in the Woods
- Peak power rating (1511) Smoking in the Woods
- 2021
- Most recent contest So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.8 | Smoking in the Woods | 2016-07-22 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.5 | 10th Annual Wellsville BBQ Cookoff | 2017-07-07 |
| -8.4 | So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) | 2021-09-11 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 80% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 86% | 86% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 94% | 94% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-11 | So.Bo.Co. BBQ Showdown (BACKYARD) Ashland, MO | 8 / 10 (314.3088) | 8 (153.7028) | 5 (160.6060) | — | — |
| 2017-07-07 | 10th Annual Wellsville BBQ Cookoff Wellsville, MO | 25 / 25 (619.3832) | 23 (161.1428) | 22 (154.8460) | 24 (151.3944) | 23 (152.0000) |
| 2016-07-22 | Smoking in the Woods Kingdom City, MO | 5 / 18 (676.4684) | 11 (167.9656) | 2 (171.9772) | 9 (167.4056) | 6 (169.1200) |