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.
The Hogfathers 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 144 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 The Hogfathers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where The Hogfathers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1552 at their best, 62 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after The Hogfathers did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Hogfathers 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 The Hogfathers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5256 | 148.5256 | 148.53 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6572 | 153.6572 | 153.66 | top 71% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.8572 | 170.86 | top 17% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9200 | 143.9200 | 143.92 | top 88% |
“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 80% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 90 / 112 (616.9600) | 101 (148.5256) | 80 (153.6572) | 19 (170.8572) | 99 (143.9200) |