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.
Woodyard Dogs 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 133 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Woodyard Dogs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Woodyard Dogs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headOne contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Woodyard Dogs has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1521 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Woodyard Dogs did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 154.8456 | 156.55 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8460 | 147.4400 | 149.14 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9884 | 150.8456 | 153.42 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 114.1372 | 133.35 | top 88% |
“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 97% | 79.5% | 79.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 543 / 557 (572.4112) | 459 (154.8456) | 511 (147.4400) | 455 (155.9884) | 552 (114.1372) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 527 / 606 (612.5144) | 444 (158.2628) | 524 (150.8460) | 541 (150.8456) | 462 (152.5600) |