Happy hunting ground
Top 19%
average finish here
Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 19% across 2 visits.
- 2 visits
- best finish 7th
- average top 19%
BIG O'S RIBS
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1521
peak 1522 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2014-09-26
latest 2016-09-30
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 30%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
667.17
last 3 Master vs avg 667.17 (-0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±12.65
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 168.00 · weakest Chicken (164.55)
Road miles
9
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
9%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1513)
Master avg
667.17 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
High-water mark
678.7540
career-best overall
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.7540 at Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival — 94.3% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-09-25
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Smokin Through The Night 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.
BIG O'S RIBS has 3 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 88 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.
#2451 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
8 contests to 3: their number has had years to settle where BIG O'S RIBS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after BIG O'S RIBS did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2464 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Level with BIG O'S RIBS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2453 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2457 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 152.5372 | 164.55 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 165.1200 | 167.22 | top 34% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8112 | 162.8800 | 167.41 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.9028 | 163.3940 | 168.00 | top 32% |
“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 18% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 36% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2 | 7 | 0 | top 19% | 2015-09-25 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2 yrs
2014-09-26 → 2016-09-30
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AR
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 168.00 · weakest Chicken (164.55)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
67%
2 of 3 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Master average
667.17
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
92
91–36 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
9
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1513
average field rating faced — tougher than 9% of rated contests
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2015-09-25 → 2016-09-30
Power rating
1521
peak 1522 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- First call Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- First overall top-10 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.1884 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Career-best single call (Brisket)174.9028 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- 2015
- Career-best overall score678.7540 Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- Peak power rating (1522) Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
- 2016
- Most recent contest *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.9 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2014-09-26 |
| +10.6 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2015-09-25 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.4 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival | 2016-09-30 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 18% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 19% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-30 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 23 / 44 (649.5768) | 35 (152.5372) | 21 (165.1200) | 20 (168.5256) | 24 (163.3940) |
| 2015-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 7 / 38 (678.7540) | 6 (174.2628) | 13 (167.9772) | 11 (170.8112) | 13 (165.7028) |
| 2014-09-26 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 9 / 48 (673.1884) | 13 (166.8456) | 9 (168.5600) | 27 (162.8800) | 4 (174.9028) |