High-water mark
690.2172
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.2172 at Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-19
Pappy Jack's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-09-14
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 54%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 176.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.95)
Road miles
71
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Purse competed for
$21K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
690.22 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
325.60 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Pappy Jack'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 116 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.
#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Pappy Jack's BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Pappy Jack's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Pappy Jack's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3072 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before Pappy Jack's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pappy Jack's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3067 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Pappy Jack's 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8800 | 165.0972 | 171.99 | top 24% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 160.5028 | 163.95 | top 67% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 80% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 176.5600 | 176.56 | top 18% |
“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 57% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-09-14 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
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 176.56 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.95)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
690.22
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
325.60
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
100
47–66 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
71
2 mapped stops · furthest 36 mi
Purse competed for
$21,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2024-09-14 → 2025-09-19
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #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 score325.6000 Trekking for CDH
- 2025
- First call Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best overall score690.2172 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best single call (Chicken)178.8800 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Most recent contest Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
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 52% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
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 | 29 / 56 (690.2172) | 3 (178.8800) | 41 (167.3944) | 45 (167.3828) | 10 (176.5600) |
| 2024-09-14 | Trekking for CDH 🏅 Pierron, IL | 20 / 35 (325.6000) | 15 (165.0972) | 21 (160.5028) | — | — |