A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
THE GRISWOLDS ahead in 100% of their meetings
THE GRISWOLDS has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Lyck BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1504 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-05-06
latest 2018-10-13
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 61%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
635.07
last 4 Master vs avg 635.07 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±9.29
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 162.13 · weakest Chicken (154.40)
Road miles
29
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
47%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1561)
Master avg
635.07 / 720
4 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 strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of ONE SMOKIN GRILL 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.
Lyck BBQ has 4 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 125 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.
#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, 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 8 years after Lyck 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 Lyck 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 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, 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, 3 years before Lyck 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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 147.3600 | 154.40 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 155.4172 | 160.85 | top 53% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 155.9656 | 157.70 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5828 | 157.0856 | 162.13 | top 48% |
“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) | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 53% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival | 3 | 27 | 0 | top 53% | 2018-05-04 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.4 yrs
2016-05-06 → 2018-10-13
Busiest season
2018
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
OK
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 162.13 · weakest Chicken (154.40)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
635.07
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
148
106–135 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
29
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1561
average field rating faced — tougher than 47% of rated contests
Power rating
1496
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest *Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival
- 2017
- Career-best overall score646.2628 *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- Peak power rating (1504) *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL)
- 2018
- First call *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)166.8344 *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
- Most recent contest *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.9 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL) | 2017-05-05 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.1 | *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que | 2018-10-13 |
| -2.3 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival | 2018-05-04 |
| -1.3 | *Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival | 2016-05-06 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 73% | 89.2% | 88.2% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 40% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-13 | *Bedouin Brew & Bar-B-Que Muskogee, OK | 22 / 26 (627.2456) | 26 (147.3600) | 9 (166.8344) | 22 (155.9656) | 23 (157.0856) |
| 2018-05-04 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 42 / 68 (642.1368) | 56 (156.5256) | 44 (159.9772) | 41 (162.8456) | 32 (162.7884) |
| 2017-05-05 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival(JUDGES FULL) Bixby, OK | 27 / 68 (646.2628) | 32 (164.5600) | 32 (161.1544) | 47 (155.9656) | 21 (164.5828) |
| 2016-05-06 | *Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 48 / 83 (624.6400) | 66 (149.1428) | 53 (155.4172) | 57 (156.0228) | 20 (164.0572) |