High-water mark
690.8232
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.8232 at Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-19
Nice Butts BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1498 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2024-09-14
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
678.19
last 3 Master vs avg 678.19 (+0.00)
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.98
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.51 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.26)
Road miles
71
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 47 mi
Schedule strength
86%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1617)
Purse competed for
$34K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
678.19 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (3 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
They cook the hard rooms
1617
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 86% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1617 power rating — a tougher draw than 86% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated contests
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.
Nice Butts BBQ has 3 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 129 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.
#3321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Nice Butts BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Nice Butts BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Nice Butts BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Nice Butts BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3313 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Nice Butts BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 167.3828 | 170.45 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 162.8344 | 166.26 | top 77% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 157.6456 | 167.96 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 172.0000 | 173.51 | top 35% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard | 2 | 26 | 0 | top 56% | 2025-09-19 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-14 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.51 · weakest Pork Ribs (166.26)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
678.19
out of 720 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
128
55–116 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
71
3 mapped stops · furthest 47 mi
Schedule strength
1617
average field rating faced — tougher than 86% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$33,700
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Power rating
1498
peak 1498 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Trekking for CDH
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.0056 Trekking for CDH
- 2025
- First call Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best overall score690.8232 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best single call (Pork)177.7144 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Peak power rating (1498) Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Most recent contest Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard | 2025-09-19 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.5 | Trekking for CDH | 2024-09-14 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 46% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 93.5% | 93.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard 🏅 Murphysboro, IL | 26 / 56 (690.8232) | 26 (173.7144) | 42 (167.3944) | 6 (177.7144) | 25 (172.0000) |
| 2024-09-20 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard 🏅 Murphysboro, IL | 38 / 58 (670.7312) | 38 (170.2628) | 36 (168.5600) | 54 (157.6456) | 11 (174.2628) |
| 2024-09-14 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 30 / 35 (673.0056) | 30 (167.3828) | 33 (162.8344) | 28 (168.5256) | 15 (174.2628) |