High-water mark
667.3372
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3372 at Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-19
SmartSights BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1494
peak 1494 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2025-09-19
latest 2025-09-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 86%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 173.12 · weakest Chicken (155.97)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
667.34 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
SmartSights BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 128 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.
#3450 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SmartSights BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3446 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before SmartSights BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3459 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before SmartSights BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1494
No shared contest yet.
Level with SmartSights BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3466 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before SmartSights BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3461 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before SmartSights 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9656 | 155.9656 | 155.97 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 166.2400 | 166.24 | top 86% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 172.0116 | 172.01 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 38% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-09-19 → 2025-09-19
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 173.12 · weakest Chicken (155.97)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
667.34
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
55
8–47 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$12,700
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1494
peak 1494 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2025
- First tracked contest Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score667.3372 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best overall score667.3372 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best single call (Brisket)173.1200 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
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 | 0% | top 86% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
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 | 48 / 56 (667.3372) | 53 (155.9656) | 48 (166.2400) | 29 (172.0116) | 21 (173.1200) |