A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
DRILLING & GRILLING ahead in 100% of their meetings
DRILLING & GRILLING has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Dirty Boy BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1496 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
6
in the data
First seen
2017-08-11
latest 2019-08-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 6 contests
Avg finish
top 64%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 151.37 · weakest Pork Ribs (145.12)
Road miles
0
mi across 6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
27%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1537)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
301.34 / 720
2 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.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Maryland State BBQ Bash (2016-08-12).
- last seen 2014-08-08
- back 2016-08-12
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.
Dirty Boy 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 118 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.
#3388 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after Dirty Boy BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Level with Dirty Boy BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3365 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Dirty Boy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3386 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 2014, 5 years before Dirty Boy 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3712 | 151.3712 | 151.37 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1200 | 145.1200 | 145.12 | top 77% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 66% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 62% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland State BBQ Bash | 3 | 22 | 0 | top 64% | 2019-08-09 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2017-08-11 → 2019-08-09
Busiest season
2019
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 6 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MD
6 of 6 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 151.37 · weakest Pork Ribs (145.12)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 6 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 6 contests
Master average
301.34
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
156
101–140 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
6 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1537
average field rating faced — tougher than 27% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,500
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2014-08-08 → 2016-08-12
Power rating
1496
peak 1496 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2018
- Career-best overall score306.2172 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Peak power rating (1499) Maryland State BBQ Bash
- 2019
- Career-best single call (Chicken)151.3712 Maryland State BBQ Bash
- Most recent contest Maryland State BBQ Bash
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.6 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2018-08-10 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.8 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2019-08-09 |
| -1.9 | Maryland State BBQ Bash | 2017-08-11 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 42.5% | 42.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 62% | 41.2% | 41.2% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-09 | Maryland State BBQ Bash 🏅 Belair, MD | 22 / 30 (296.4912) | 19 (151.3712) | 23 (145.1200) | — | — |
| 2018-08-10 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 22 / 38 (306.2172) | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-08-11 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 29 / 47 (296.4688) | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-12 | Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-08-08 | MD State BBQ Bash, Presented by Mars Super Markets Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-09 | 12th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | — | — | — | — | — |