High-water mark
685.0516
career-best overall
95.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.0516 at GLBBQA Spring Fling — 95.1% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2025-04-18
Collins Custom BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-07-20
latest 2025-04-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 37%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 173.42 · weakest Brisket (166.24)
Road miles
76
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
685.05 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
340.54 / 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.
Collins Custom BBQ has 2 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 107 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.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Collins Custom BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Collins Custom BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Collins Custom BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2680 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Collins Custom 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 171.4172 | 173.42 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 169.1200 | 171.70 | top 25% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 169.1200 | 169.12 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 166.2400 | 166.24 | top 75% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 39% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 34% |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.7 yrs
2024-07-20 → 2025-04-18
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MI
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 173.42 · weakest Brisket (166.24)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Master average
685.05
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
340.54
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
73
51–26 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
76
2 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Purse competed for
$6,700
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.5372 Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Career-best overall score685.0516 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Career-best single call (Chicken)175.4172 GLBBQA Spring Fling
- Most recent contest GLBBQA Spring Fling
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 34% | 95.1% | 95.1% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 39% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-18 | GLBBQA Spring Fling 🏅 Charlotte, MI | 19 / 56 (685.0516) | 10 (175.4172) | 9 (174.2744) | 36 (169.1200) | 42 (166.2400) |
| 2024-07-20 | Dowagiac BBQ Competition and Summer Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Dowagiac, MI | 9 / 23 (340.5372) | 10 (171.4172) | 8 (169.1200) | — | — |