High-water mark
662.8684
career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 662.8684 at Pit at the Park — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-08-05
Sam's Best BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1508
peak 1508 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2016-08-05
latest 2016-08-05
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.33 · weakest Pork (159.43)
Master avg
662.87 / 720
1 Master contest · 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.
Sam's Best BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 119 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.
#2901 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sam's Best BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2892 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after Sam's Best BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2903 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Level with Sam's Best BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2906 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sam's Best BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sam's Best BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2905 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sam's Best BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 170.3316 | 170.3316 | 170.33 | top 13% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4284 | 159.4284 | 159.43 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 165.7256 | 165.73 | top 43% |
“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.
The story so far (11 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2016-08-05 → 2016-08-05
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Cooks most in
PA
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 170.33 · weakest Pork (159.43)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Master average
662.87
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
22
15–7 across every shared overall standing
Power rating
1508
peak 1508 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Pit at the Park
- First call Pit at the Park
- First overall top-10 Pit at the Park
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score662.8684 Pit at the Park
- Career-best overall score662.8684 Pit at the Park
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.3316 Pit at the Park
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 | 0 | 100% | top 35% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-05 | Pit at the Park Macungie, PA | 8 / 23 (662.8684) | 8 (167.3828) | 3 (170.3316) | 15 (159.4284) | 10 (165.7256) |