High-water mark
685.6684
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.6684 at *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-09-09
Plowboys
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-07-11
latest 2016-09-09
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
2
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 15%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 175.19 · weakest Pork (164.54)
Road miles
38
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
679.09 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Plowboys 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 74 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 10 years after Plowboys did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with Plowboys on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2254 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1538
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Plowboys's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2256 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Plowboys's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 177.7600 | 172.6172 | 175.19 | top 10% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 165.6800 | 169.97 | top 18% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 159.9540 | 164.54 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 174.2628 | 164.5256 | 169.39 | top 25% |
“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 19% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 11% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
2.2 yrs
2014-07-11 → 2016-09-09
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 175.19 · weakest Pork (164.54)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Master average
679.09
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
104
97–13 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
38
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
2.2 yrs
2014-07-11 → 2016-09-09
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Johnson County Fair BBQ
- First call Johnson County Fair BBQ
- First category win (Brisket) Johnson County Fair BBQ
- First overall top-10 Johnson County Fair BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score672.5140 Johnson County Fair BBQ
- 2016
- Career-best overall score685.6684 *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.7600 *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ
- Most recent contest *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ
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 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 11% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 19% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-09 | *Independence Fire & Ice BBQ Independence, MO | 8 / 76 (685.6684) | 1 (177.7600) | 8 (174.2628) | 29 (169.1200) | 36 (164.5256) |
| 2014-07-11 | Johnson County Fair BBQ Warrensburg, MO | 7 / 36 (672.5140) | 7 (172.6172) | 9 (165.6800) | 24 (159.9540) | 1 (174.2628) |