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.
FIELD OF PIGS 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 154 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 FIELD OF PIGS 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 FIELD OF PIGS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after FIELD OF PIGS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where FIELD OF PIGS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 166.2744 | 166.29 | top 39% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 161.1200 | 161.12 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| 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 89% | 45.5% | 45.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 23.1% | 23.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-30 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 39 / 44 (327.3944) | — | 17 (166.2744) | 24 (161.1200) | — |
| 2015-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 37 / 38 (166.2972) | — | 15 (166.2972) | — | — |