High-water mark
669.7600
career-best overall
93.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.7600 at The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest — 93.0% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-07-29
AJ's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1509
peak 1509 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-07-24
latest 2016-07-29
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 43%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 167.14 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.57)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
661.93 / 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.
AJ's BBQ 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 98 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.
#2877 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2857 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with AJ's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2875 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-head#2878 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where AJ's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2874 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where AJ's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 162.2400 | 167.12 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 156.6172 | 160.57 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 163.9312 | 167.10 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 163.4056 | 167.14 | top 34% |
“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 (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2015-07-24 → 2016-07-29
Busiest season
2016
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 167.14 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.57)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
661.93
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
55
41–29 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2015-07-24 → 2016-07-29
Power rating
1509
peak 1509 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Dodge City Days Barbeque Cook-Off
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score654.1024 Dodge City Days Barbeque Cook-Off
- 2016
- First call The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest
- Career-best overall score669.7600 The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0000 The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest
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 | 100% | top 35% | 93% | 93% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-29 | The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | 13 / 37 (669.7600) | 7 (172.0000) | 30 (156.6172) | 13 (170.2628) | 7 (170.8800) |
| 2015-07-24 | Dodge City Days Barbeque Cook-Off Dodge City, KS | 18 / 35 (654.1024) | 23 (162.2400) | 17 (164.5256) | 18 (163.9312) | 17 (163.4056) |