A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
PORKY MCBEEF AND THE CLUCKERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
PORKY MCBEEF AND THE CLUCKERS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Possum Belly Smokers
Possum Belly Smokers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2014 and 2015. Their best overall finish is 6th of 12 at the Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1483
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Aug 15, 2014
latest Sep 18, 2015 · 1.1 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
40%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.78
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.04 · weakest Brisket (152.93)
Road miles
53
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
25%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1534)
Purse competed for
$2,000
listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings
Master avg
639.90 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
327.39 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Possum Belly Smokers, each with one reason worth a look.
Possum Belly Smokers has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 139 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,016 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Possum Belly Smokers)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Possum Belly Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,021 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1508
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Possum Belly Smokers)
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,023 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1483
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Possum Belly Smokers)
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,013 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Possum Belly Smokers)
Level with Possum Belly Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,015 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 10%
- Peak
- 1483
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Possum Belly Smokers)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Possum Belly Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#4,031 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1482
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 155.3828 | 158.69 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 157.6684 | 166.04 | top 41% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1772 | 156.5372 | 162.43 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 142.1828 | 152.93 | top 76% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 69% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 68% | Sep 18, 2015 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2014
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Opponents faced
636
finished ahead 178 times, behind 521
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20151 milestone
- Most recent contest Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out
20143 milestones
- Peak power rating (1498) BBQ and Fly In on the River
- Career-best overall score657.0968 Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)172.0228 Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out
—4 milestones
- First tracked contest Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score327.3944 Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.1 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out | Sep 18, 2015 |
| -6.8 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | Oct 2, 2014 |
| -2 | BBQ and Fly In on the River | Aug 15, 2014 |
| -0.3 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out | Sep 19, 2014 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 65% | 91.3% | 89.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2015 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out Kearney, MO | 33 / 41 (629.5428) | 23 (165.1428) | 19 (165.6800) | 35 (156.5372) | 39 (142.1828) |
| Oct 2, 2014 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 428 / 552 (628.4568) | 443 (155.9772) | 397 (157.6684) | 392 (158.8800) | 376 (155.9312) |
| Sep 19, 2014 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out Kearney, MO | 27 / 49 (657.0968) | 42 (158.2740) | 9 (172.0228) | 25 (165.1200) | 28 (161.6800) |
| Aug 15, 2014 | BBQ and Fly In on the River Excelsior Springs, MO | 32 / 51 (644.5140) | 38 (155.3828) | 13 (168.0228) | 17 (169.1772) | 42 (151.9312) |
| — | Dadfest BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Kansas City, MO | 6 / 12 (327.3944) | — | 5 (166.8228) | — | — |