High-water mark
675.4400
career-best overall
93.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.4400 at The Best Damn BBQ Contest — 93.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-04-10
GRILLIN GRIFFINS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1492
peak 1512 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2015-04-10
latest 2018-04-13
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
630.66
last 4 Master vs avg 630.66 (+0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±38.11
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.15 · weakest Brisket (149.68)
Road miles
10
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
56%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Master avg
630.66 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (4 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
DIRT ROAD BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
DIRT ROAD BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of This Little Piggy Got Smoked in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
HIRAM'S BONES has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
GRILLIN GRIFFINS 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 141 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
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#3556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 7 years after GRILLIN GRIFFINS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with GRILLIN GRIFFINS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3559 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
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#3551 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#3561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1492
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-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4400 | 144.0232 | 162.15 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4400 | 149.7028 | 159.42 | top 66% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 141.0856 | 159.40 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 137.6572 | 149.68 | top 74% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | 2 | 33 | 0 | top 71% | 2017-04-07 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2015-04-10 → 2018-04-13
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.15 · weakest Brisket (149.68)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
630.66
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
136
73–133 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
10
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1571
average field rating faced — tougher than 56% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2017-04-07 → 2018-04-13
Power rating
1492
peak 1512 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- First call The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- First category win (Pork Ribs) The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.4400 The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score675.4400 The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- Peak power rating (1512) The Best Damn BBQ Contest
- 2016
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4400 The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake
- 2018
- Most recent contest The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.2 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest | 2015-04-10 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.5 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | 2018-04-13 |
| -6.6 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | 2017-04-07 |
| -1.5 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake | 2016-04-08 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 79.5% | 79.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 62% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 21% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-13 | The Best Dam BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake Smithville, MO | 50 / 51 (572.4688) | 51 (144.0232) | 48 (149.7028) | 50 (141.0856) | 50 (137.6572) |
| 2017-04-07 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake Smithville, MO | 43 / 54 (624.5604) | 17 (169.1656) | 49 (153.7144) | 36 (162.8572) | 53 (138.8232) |
| 2016-04-08 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake Smithville, MO | 33 / 53 (650.1712) | 1 (175.4400) | 41 (158.8344) | 41 (158.7884) | 37 (157.1084) |
| 2015-04-10 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest Smithville, MO | 11 / 52 (675.4400) | 37 (159.9772) | 1 (175.4400) | 5 (174.8800) | 16 (165.1428) |