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.
Ole Man Larry 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 148 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 Ole Man Larry has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Ole Man Larry did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ole Man Larry 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 | 161.7140 | 157.1084 | 159.41 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4288 | 150.2060 | 150.82 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7142 | 147.9884 | 156.85 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4284 | 151.9544 | 153.69 | top 68% |
“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 93% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-24 | Wabash Ribber Fest Mt. Carmel, IL | 43 / 46 (607.2572) | 33 (157.1084) | 38 (150.2060) | 43 (147.9884) | 35 (151.9544) |
| 2013-04-05 | 1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out Evansville, IN | 30 / 50 (634.2854) | 19 (161.7140) | 42 (151.4288) | 15 (165.7142) | 30 (155.4284) |