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.
Billy Sims 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 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Billy Sims BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 13 years after Billy Sims BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Billy Sims BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Billy Sims BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2858 | 145.1428 | 151.71 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0002 | 138.2400 | 149.12 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1430 | 158.2628 | 163.70 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7142 | 160.0116 | 160.86 | top 66% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| 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 96% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 | Smokin on the Route 🏅 Miami, OK | 26 / 27 (601.6572) | 26 (145.1428) | 27 (138.2400) | 25 (158.2628) | 24 (160.0116) |
| 2013-05-03 | Bixby BBQ & Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 39 / 88 (649.1432) | 54 (158.2858) | 46 (160.0002) | 17 (169.1430) | 38 (161.7142) |