High-water mark
685.6228
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.6228 at Homecoming 2016 — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2016-09-02
Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1499
peak 1514 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2016-09-02
latest 2025-07-26
Best ToY finish
#335
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
318.96
last 3 Backyard vs avg 318.96 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.25
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 170.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.68)
Road miles
599
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 296 mi
Schedule strength
52%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1567)
Purse competed for
$19K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
685.62 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
318.96 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
Master and Backyard overall scores sit on different scales (Master is out of 720, Backyard out of 360), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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
4.6 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 4.6 years, then back at Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) (2021-04-23).
- last seen 2016-09-02
- back 2021-04-23
Announced themselves early
5th
at their very first contest
Finished 5 of 26 at their very first tracked contest, Homecoming 2016 (2016-09-02).
- 2016-09-02
- 26-team field
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.
Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ has 4 rated contests — 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 129 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.
#3246 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1508
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#3236 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 11%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3218 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
Level with Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1499
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3227 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Gettin' Piggy With It BBQ'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 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.1428 | 151.9544 | 165.11 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 154.2400 | 160.68 | top 57% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 168.5372 | 168.54 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 170.8228 | 170.82 | top 19% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main | 2 | 17 | 0 | top 58% | 2025-07-26 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
8.9 yrs
2016-09-02 → 2025-07-26
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
2 of 4 contests · 3 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 1 win · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 170.82 · weakest Pork Ribs (160.68)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Master average
685.62
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
318.96
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
133
68–102 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
599
4 mapped stops · furthest 296 mi
Schedule strength
1567
average field rating faced — tougher than 52% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$19,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
4.6 yrs
2016-09-02 → 2021-04-23
Power rating
1499
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest Homecoming 2016
- First call Homecoming 2016
- First category win (Chicken) Homecoming 2016
- First overall top-10 Homecoming 2016
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.6228 Homecoming 2016
- Career-best overall score685.6228 Homecoming 2016
- Career-best single call (Chicken)177.1428 Homecoming 2016
- Peak power rating (1514) Homecoming 2016
- 2025
- Most recent contest Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.5 | Homecoming 2016 | 2016-09-02 |
| +2.3 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main | 2024-07-27 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.6 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-04-23 |
| -4.1 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main | 2025-07-26 |
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)
Team of the Year rank by season
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 | 0% | top 66% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 90% | 90% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 19% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-26 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main 🏅 Collinsville, IL | 21 / 32 (325.6344) | 21 (161.6572) | 17 (163.9772) | — | — |
| 2024-07-27 | Code 3 Spices - Smokin' on Main 🏅 Collinsville, IL | 17 / 34 (323.9084) | 11 (169.6684) | 21 (154.2400) | — | — |
| 2021-04-23 | Smoke on the Water Festival(BACKYARD ONLY) Florence, AL | 27 / 29 (307.3372) | 28 (151.9544) | 22 (155.3828) | — | — |
| 2016-09-02 | Homecoming 2016 Vernon, IN | 5 / 26 (685.6228) | 1 (177.1428) | 10 (169.1200) | 12 (168.5372) | 5 (170.8228) |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #357 (71 pts) | #357 (71 pts) | #351 (91 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #335 (94 pts) | #298 (124 pts) | #368 (74 pts) | — | — |