High-water mark
673.0628
career-best overall
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0628 at Grillstock — 93.5% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-09-12
David Johnson
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1498
peak 1498 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2025-09-12
latest 2025-09-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 70%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 172.56 · weakest Chicken (164.53)
Road miles
218
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 218 mi
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
673.06 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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Storylines (2 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.
The comeback
7.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 7.1 years, then back at Grillstock (2025-09-12).
- last seen 2018-07-27
- back 2025-09-12
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.
David Johnson 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 124 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.
#3297 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#3295 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 10 years before David Johnson's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3285 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before David Johnson's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3288 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
Level with David Johnson on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before David Johnson's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3296 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before David Johnson'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 | 164.5256 | 164.5256 | 164.53 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 164.5600 | 164.56 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 30% |
“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 (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2025-09-12 → 2025-09-12
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
3 of 4 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 172.56 · weakest Chicken (164.53)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
673.06
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
22
7–15 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
218
4 mapped stops · furthest 218 mi
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
7.1 yrs
2018-07-27 → 2025-09-12
Power rating
1498
peak 1498 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest
- 2025
- First call Grillstock
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score673.0628 Grillstock
- Career-best overall score673.0628 Grillstock
- Career-best single call (Brisket)172.5600 Grillstock
- Most recent contest Grillstock
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 70% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-12 | Grillstock 🏅 Moore, OK | 16 / 23 (673.0628) | 19 (164.5256) | 18 (164.5600) | 13 (171.4172) | 7 (172.5600) |
| 2018-07-27 | Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-07-28 | Dodge City Days National Beef Smokin' Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-07-29 | The Dodge City Days Smokin Saddles BBQ Contest Dodge City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |