High-water mark
671.3488
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.3488 at Torry Island BBQ Showdown — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2026-03-20
Little Nicky's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2025-03-21
latest 2026-03-20
Best ToY finish
#747
Master 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 67%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
665.82
last 3 Master vs avg 665.82 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.60
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 169.51 · weakest Pork (159.98)
Road miles
248
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 83 mi
Schedule strength
27%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1537)
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
665.82 / 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
Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 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.
Little Nicky's 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 146 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.
#4185 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 38%
- Peak
- 1528
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Little Nicky's BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Little Nicky's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4209 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Little Nicky's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4210 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Little Nicky's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Little Nicky's 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 | 175.4400 | 162.2628 | 169.51 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 162.2628 | 167.41 | top 58% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 156.5372 | 159.98 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 164.5600 | 168.93 | top 38% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 61% | 2026-03-20 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2025-03-21 → 2026-03-20
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
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 169.51 · weakest Pork (159.98)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
665.82
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
102
29–108 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
248
3 mapped stops · furthest 83 mi
Schedule strength
1537
average field rating faced — tougher than 27% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$50,100
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First call Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.9772 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4400 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Peak power rating (1495) Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- 2026
- Career-best overall score671.3488 Torry Island BBQ Showdown
- Most recent contest Torry Island BBQ Showdown
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10 | Plant City Pig Jam | 2025-11-21 |
| -6.6 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2026-03-20 |
| -4.7 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown | 2025-03-21 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 100% | top 68% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 67% | 92.8% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-20 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 23 / 34 (671.3488) | 13 (170.8228) | 17 (171.4172) | 29 (157.6916) | 10 (171.4172) |
| 2025-11-21 | Plant City Pig Jam 🏅 Plant City, FL | 25 / 31 (658.1484) | 30 (162.2628) | 21 (168.5372) | 29 (156.5372) | 11 (170.8112) |
| 2025-03-21 | Torry Island BBQ Showdown 🏅 Belle Glade, FL | 14 / 26 (667.9772) | 4 (175.4400) | 15 (162.2628) | 11 (165.7144) | 13 (164.5600) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #747 (125 pts) | #705 (175 pts) | #753 (175 pts) | #825 (115 pts) | #543 (260 pts) |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #983 (106 pts) | #762 (201 pts) | #1163 (101 pts) | #932 (121 pts) | #1007 (111 pts) |