A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
LEE LA Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
LEE LA Q has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Chief Grilldaddy & the Hosedraggers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1488
peak 1500 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2020-03-13
latest 2024-09-13
Best ToY finish
#415
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 74%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 167.99 · weakest Brisket (151.39)
Road miles
396
mi across 4 mapped stops · furthest 195 mi
Schedule strength
38%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1549)
Purse competed for
$23K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Master avg
629.59 / 720
1 Master contest · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
402.82 / 360
2 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 (2 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
3.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3.1 years, then back at Smoke on the Falls (2023-04-07).
- last seen 2020-03-13
- back 2023-04-07
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.
Chief Grilldaddy & the Hosedraggers 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 145 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.
#3758 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1488
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#3748 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 80%
- Peak
- 1488
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Chief Grilldaddy & the Hosedraggers did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head#3789 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Chief Grilldaddy & the Hosedraggers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3776 of the rated field
- Contests
- 9
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 9 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#3764 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1503
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#3772 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1501
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Chief Grilldaddy & the Hosedraggers'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 | 159.4172 | 153.0972 | 155.78 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 160.5828 | 167.99 | top 40% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 158.8228 | 159.10 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3944 | 151.3944 | 151.39 | top 92% |
“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 (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4.5 yrs
2020-03-13 → 2024-09-13
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 167.99 · weakest Brisket (151.39)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Master average
629.59
out of 720 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Backyard average
402.82
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
126
35–103 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
396
4 mapped stops · furthest 195 mi
Schedule strength
1549
average field rating faced — tougher than 38% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$23,220
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3.1 yrs
2020-03-13 → 2023-04-07
Power rating
1488
peak 1500 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2020
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score479.3828 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1500) Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Career-best overall score629.5888 Smoke on the Falls
- First call Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.7028 Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- 2024
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Water Guntersville (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.4 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2020-03-13 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.4 | Smoke on the Falls | 2023-04-07 |
| -6.3 | Smoke on the Water Guntersville (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-09-13 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 87% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 133.2% | 133.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-13 | Smoke on the Water Guntersville (BACKYARD ONLY) Guntersville, AL | 27 / 33 (326.2516) | 32 (154.8344) | 11 (171.4172) | — | — |
| 2023-10-21 | Battle for the Bones (ONE MEAT RIBS) Birmingham, AL | — | — | 2 (173.7028) | — | — |
| 2023-04-07 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 34 / 39 (629.5888) | 38 (153.0972) | 23 (166.2744) | 35 (158.8228) | 36 (151.3944) |
| 2020-03-13 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 12 / 23 (479.3828) | 14 (159.4172) | 11 (160.5828) | 13 (159.3828) | — |
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 ↗ | Backyard | #415 (58 pts) | #417 (58 pts) | #303 (128 pts) | — | — |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #1319 (60 pts) | #669 (306 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |