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.
Fatbacks Rib Shack 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 102 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 Fatbacks Rib Shack has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fatbacks Rib Shack's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fatbacks Rib Shack 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 Fatbacks Rib Shack's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fatbacks Rib Shack's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 154.8572 | 154.86 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5716 | 168.5716 | 168.57 | top 13% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 168.0000 | 168.00 | top 14% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5714 | 156.5714 | 156.57 | top 52% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 90% | 90% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-14 | Central MD Swinetastic BBQ Festival Frederick, MD | 16 / 63 (648.0002) | 44 (154.8572) | 8 (168.5716) | 9 (168.0000) | 33 (156.5714) |