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.
Ferguson's/Factory Direct Appliance 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 146 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 Ferguson's/Factory Direct Appliance has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Ferguson's/Factory Direct Appliance's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ferguson's/Factory Direct Appliance on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 17% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Ferguson's/Factory Direct Appliance did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 158.2972 | 158.56 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3828 | 132.5032 | 139.94 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 154.8228 | 158.26 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 150.8004 | 152.51 | top 78% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 519 / 557 (603.3036) | 402 (158.2972) | 554 (132.5032) | 356 (161.7028) | 459 (150.8004) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 517 / 606 (615.2456) | 431 (158.8228) | 552 (147.3828) | 483 (154.8228) | 441 (154.2172) |