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.
Nothin' Butt Trouble 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 126 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 Nothin' Butt Trouble has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head27 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Nothin' Butt Trouble's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head42 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 17% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Nothin' Butt Trouble on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 165.7028 | 165.70 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2860 | 158.2860 | 158.29 | top 74% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.3200 | 162.3200 | 162.32 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8116 | 146.8116 | 146.81 | top 90% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 319 / 407 (633.1204) | 218 (165.7028) | 301 (158.2860) | 262 (162.3200) | 365 (146.8116) |