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.
Butler Manufacturing 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 132 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Butler Manufacturing has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1524 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Butler Manufacturing's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Butler Manufacturing did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Butler Manufacturing on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Butler Manufacturing's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1312 | 161.1312 | 161.13 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3600 | 147.3600 | 147.36 | top 94% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 163.9428 | 163.94 | top 43% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 429 / 552 (628.4112) | 367 (161.1312) | 517 (147.3600) | 437 (155.9772) | 235 (163.9428) |