Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
SHAGGY MULE BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
DESPERADO'S BARBECUE & CATERING
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1474
peak 1474 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2014-09-20
latest 2015-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 93%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 153.14 · weakest Chicken (121.99)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Master avg
567.10 / 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.
DESPERADO'S BARBECUE & CATERING 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 149 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.
#4424 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4436 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 8 years after DESPERADO'S BARBECUE & CATERING did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4433 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
Level with DESPERADO'S BARBECUE & CATERING on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4440 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4443 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1504 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4417 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 37 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5944 | 87.3944 | 121.99 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0740 | 138.2972 | 147.69 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7600 | 138.7888 | 144.27 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4744 | 142.8116 | 153.14 | top 59% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oinktoberfest | 2 | 46 | 0 | top 93% | 2015-09-19 |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2014-09-20 → 2015-09-19
Busiest season
2015
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
NY
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 153.14 · weakest Chicken (121.99)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
567.10
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
78
7–109 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Power rating
1474
peak 1474 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2014
- First tracked contest Oinktoberfest
- Career-best single call (Brisket)163.4744 Oinktoberfest
- 2015
- Career-best overall score595.2688 Oinktoberfest
- Most recent contest Oinktoberfest
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 82.7% | 82.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 74.9% | 74.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-19 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | 46 / 52 (595.2688) | 33 (156.5944) | 28 (157.0740) | 51 (138.7888) | 49 (142.8116) |
| 2014-09-20 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | 65 / 66 (538.9260) | 66 (87.3944) | 60 (138.2972) | 50 (149.7600) | 16 (163.4744) |