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.
Cravin' Dave's 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 146 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 Cravin' Dave's 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-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Cravin' Dave's did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cravin' Dave's on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2628 | 144.5600 | 145.41 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1428 | 138.8456 | 143.99 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.7884 | 145.6912 | 148.24 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 140.5256 | 148.54 | top 76% |
“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.
| 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 100% | 79.8% | 79.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 83% | 83% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-24 | 5th Annual Morton BBQ Throwdown Morton, IL | 47 / 47 (574.7196) | 47 (144.5600) | 46 (138.8456) | 42 (150.7884) | 46 (140.5256) |
| 2014-07-25 | Morton BBQ Throwdown Morton, IL | 46 / 48 (597.6568) | 46 (146.2628) | 44 (149.1428) | 46 (145.6912) | 26 (156.5600) |