High-water mark
685.6800
career-best overall
95.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 685.6800 at Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard — 95.2% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2024-09-20
Work Wives BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1506
peak 1506 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2024-09-20
latest 2024-09-20
Best ToY finish
#1182
Master 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 45%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.86 · weakest Brisket (166.27)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
685.68 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
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.
Work Wives BBQ 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 114 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.
#2955 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Work Wives BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2967 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before Work Wives BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2946 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Work Wives BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2952 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Work Wives BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2966 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Work Wives BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Work Wives 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 174.8572 | 174.86 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 172.5716 | 172.57 | top 29% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.9772 | 171.98 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2740 | 166.2740 | 166.27 | top 57% |
“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.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-09-20 → 2024-09-20
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.86 · weakest Brisket (166.27)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Master average
685.68
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
57
32–25 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$12,700
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1506
peak 1506 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score685.6800 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best overall score685.6800 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8572 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 95.2% | 95.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-20 | Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard 🏅 Murphysboro, IL | 26 / 58 (685.6800) | 22 (174.8572) | 17 (172.5716) | 27 (171.9772) | 33 (166.2740) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1190 (75 pts) | #1156 (100 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |