High-water mark
667.9428
career-best overall
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.9428 at Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-04-25
Tall Boy BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1483
peak 1483 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2024-04-26
latest 2025-04-25
Best ToY finish
#309
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
33%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 168.75 · weakest Brisket (156.52)
Road miles
49
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
59%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1574)
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Master avg
653.35 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
332.54 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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 (1 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.
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.
Tall Boy BBQ has 3 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 128 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.
#3983 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3990 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Tall Boy BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3972 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Tall Boy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before Tall Boy BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3987 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Tall Boy BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3995 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Tall Boy 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 166.2628 | 168.75 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7256 | 150.8572 | 162.29 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 163.3828 | 166.54 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5256 | 156.5144 | 156.52 | top 89% |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 63% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 87% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest | 2 | 33 | 0 | top 87% | 2025-04-25 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-04-26 → 2025-04-25
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 168.75 · weakest Brisket (156.52)
Walk rate
33%
a top-10 call in 1 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Master average
653.35
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Backyard average
332.54
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
79
18–82 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
49
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1574
average field rating faced — tougher than 59% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$11,490
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1483
peak 1483 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- Peak power rating (1490) Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- First call Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score332.5372 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Career-best overall score667.9428 Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- Career-best single call (Chicken)172.0000 Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
- Most recent contest Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -9.7 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest | 2024-04-26 |
| -5.6 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest | 2025-04-25 |
| -1.4 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-10-04 |
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 83% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 77% | 92.4% | 90.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-25 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest 🏅 Sugar Creek, MO | 33 / 40 (667.9428) | 22 (172.0000) | 25 (169.7256) | 25 (169.6916) | 37 (156.5256) |
| 2024-10-04 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 12 / 19 (332.5372) | 11 (166.2628) | 10 (166.2744) | — | — |
| 2024-04-26 | Smokin' in the Creek BBQ Contest 🏅 Sugar Creek, MO | 40 / 44 (638.7544) | 29 (168.0000) | 42 (150.8572) | 36 (163.3828) | 38 (156.5144) |
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 ↗ | Master | #1148 (60 pts) | #1166 (75 pts) | #1293 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) | #1190 (60 pts) |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #309 (109 pts) | #316 (114 pts) | #317 (119 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |