High-water mark
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8344 at 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-01-09
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8344 at 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
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.
Wheeler's BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 99 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 6 years before Wheeler's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Wheeler's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before Wheeler's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wheeler's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Wheeler's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Wheeler's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 160.5372 | 163.39 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 174.2972 | 174.30 | top 21% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 174.2744 | 174.27 | top 21% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0628 | 153.0628 | 153.06 | top 63% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 93% | 93% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | 10th Annual Jimmy Jam BBQ Slam 🏅 St. Augustine, FL | 11 / 38 (334.8344) | 18 (160.5372) | 8 (174.2972) | 8 (174.2744) | 24 (153.0628) |