High-water mark
672.4572
career-best overall
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.4572 at *Smoke On the Trails — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2017-09-29
BAM BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-09-23
latest 2017-09-29
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 32%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
666.46
last 4 Master vs avg 666.46 (-0.00)
Walk rate
75%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.24
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 168.39 · weakest Chicken (164.39)
Road miles
37
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
25%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1534)
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
666.46 / 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 tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead in 100% of their meetings
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has come out ahead 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.
BAM 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 74 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
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#2250 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after BAM BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with BAM BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before BAM BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2254 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1538
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before BAM 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4056 | 157.0972 | 164.39 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 157.6800 | 165.69 | top 43% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 159.9312 | 168.39 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 165.7144 | 167.99 | top 28% |
“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 43% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 29% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2016-09-23 → 2017-09-29
Busiest season
2017
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 168.39 · weakest Chicken (164.39)
Walk rate
75%
a top-10 call in 3 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
666.46
out of 720 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
224
222–89 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
37
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1534
average field rating faced — tougher than 25% of rated contests
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- First call Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.4572 Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- 2017
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4056 Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque
- Career-best overall score672.4572 *Smoke On the Trails
- Peak power rating (1528) *Smoke On the Trails
- Most recent contest *Smoke On the Trails
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.5 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque | 2017-09-22 |
| +8.3 | *Smoke On the Trails | 2017-09-29 |
| +4.9 | *Smokin on Oak | 2017-08-18 |
| +3.4 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2016-09-23 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 29% | 93.4% | 93.2% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-29 | *Smoke On the Trails Gardner, KS | 20 / 64 (672.4572) | 33 (163.9428) | 19 (171.4172) | 19 (170.2628) | 27 (166.8344) |
| 2017-09-22 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 16 / 112 (672.4224) | 4 (175.4056) | 23 (170.2628) | 82 (159.9312) | 26 (166.8228) |
| 2017-08-18 | *Smokin on Oak Bonner Springs, KS | 12 / 28 (668.5144) | 18 (161.0972) | 16 (163.4172) | 9 (171.4172) | 6 (172.5828) |
| 2016-09-23 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 45 / 111 (652.4572) | 85 (157.0972) | 71 (157.6800) | 10 (171.9656) | 28 (165.7144) |