High-water mark
686.8800
career-best overall
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.8800 at *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-22
COOKING FOR ERIC
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1526
peak 1526 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2017-09-22
latest 2018-03-02
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 25%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 174.31 · weakest Brisket (165.40)
Road miles
109
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 55 mi
Master avg
683.99 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
COOKING FOR ERIC 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 71 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.
#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2302 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1529
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after COOKING FOR ERIC did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#2311 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with COOKING FOR ERIC on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2298 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before COOKING FOR ERIC's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where COOKING FOR ERIC's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2304 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where COOKING FOR ERIC's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.3200 | 173.1084 | 173.71 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1544 | 163.9772 | 170.57 | top 28% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 173.7372 | 174.31 | top 13% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8456 | 155.9544 | 165.40 | top 49% |
“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 17% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.4 yrs
2017-09-22 → 2018-03-02
Busiest season
2018
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 174.31 · weakest Brisket (165.40)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
683.99
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
74
61–19 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
109
2 mapped stops · furthest 55 mi
Power rating
1526
peak 1526 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2017
- First tracked contest *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival
- First call *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score686.8800 *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival
- Career-best overall score686.8800 *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival
- 2018
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.1544 *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1
- Most recent contest *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1
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 | 100% | top 32% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-02 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 Cheney, KS | 15 / 47 (681.0972) | 10 (173.1084) | 2 (177.1544) | 4 (174.8800) | 42 (155.9544) |
| 2017-09-22 | *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival Junction City, KS | 6 / 35 (686.8800) | 7 (174.3200) | 18 (163.9772) | 6 (173.7372) | 3 (174.8456) |