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 Daddy & Sons BBQ has 2 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 160 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Big Daddy & Sons BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Big Daddy & Sons BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Big Daddy & Sons BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big Daddy & Sons BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 155.9656 | 163.70 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 150.7656 | 163.95 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7712 | 151.4172 | 154.59 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6688 | 153.1200 | 153.39 | top 81% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 87% | 87% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 68% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 390 / 467 (626.7428) | 116 (171.4400) | 420 (150.7656) | 415 (151.4172) | 389 (153.1200) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 275 / 407 (644.5484) | 345 (155.9656) | 10 (177.1428) | 327 (157.7712) | 324 (153.6688) |