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.
SJ & Friends 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 153 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 SJ & Friends has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SJ & Friends's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SJ & Friends 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 SJ & Friends's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SJ & Friends's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.9028 | 154.9028 | 154.90 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.7484 | 145.7484 | 145.75 | top 96% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7256 | 161.7256 | 161.73 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.7028 | 141.7028 | 141.70 | top 94% |
“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 91% | 83.9% | 83.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 505 / 552 (604.0796) | 457 (154.9028) | 528 (145.7484) | 329 (161.7256) | 520 (141.7028) |