High-water mark
340.5944
career-best overall
94.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 340.5944 at Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) — 94.6% of a perfect 360.
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WSG Cookers
WSG Cookers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2021 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 6th of 23 at the Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1467
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Oct 8, 2021
latest Oct 11, 2024 · 3 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 73%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±10.62
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.59 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.59)
Road miles
0
across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
38%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1550)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
321.17 / 360
5 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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WSG Cookers has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 138 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,805 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
They've been 1510 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careers#4,809 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before WSG Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,808 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before WSG Cookers's first contest.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
Level with WSG Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back 40 BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| LEE LA Q | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| BUTSY-Q | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8688 | 156.5028 | 162.59 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 147.9428 | 158.59 | top 77% |
“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.
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | 4 | 23 | 0 | top 85% | Oct 11, 2024 |
More numbers
Contests a season
1
across 5 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
88
finished ahead 37 times, behind 115
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Oct 7, 2022 → Oct 13, 2023
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20241 milestone
- Most recent contest Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE)
20211 milestone
- Peak power rating (1489) Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY)
—6 milestones
- First tracked contest Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score340.5944 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score340.5944 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8688 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.9 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 8, 2021 |
| -10.8 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 7, 2022 |
| -8.3 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) | Oct 13, 2023 |
| -3.4 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) | Oct 11, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 2024 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE) Scottsboro, AL | 28 / 38 (321.0284) | 27 (162.2400) | 27 (158.7884) | — | — |
| Oct 13, 2023 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 23 / 27 (319.3144) | 25 (156.5028) | 20 (162.8116) | — | — |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 35 / 38 (308.4684) | 30 (160.5256) | 35 (147.9428) | — | — |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Scottsboro BBQ Festival (BACKYARD & KIDS QUE ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 28 / 31 (316.4572) | 29 (158.8000) | 25 (157.6572) | — | — |
| — | Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 6 / 23 (340.5944) | 3 (174.8688) | 16 (165.7256) | — | — |