The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
SMF has finished one call ahead of Bubba's Pig-a-licious 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Bubba's Pig-a-licious
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1432
peak 1432 · rated over 12 contests ⓘ
Contests
12
in the data
First seen
2013-09-27
latest 2025-09-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 12 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
642.17 ▲
last 5 Master vs avg 631.31 (+10.86)
Walk rate
8%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±13.81
std dev of Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.26 · weakest Brisket (153.34)
Road miles
5
mi across 12 mapped stops
Schedule strength
12%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1517)
Purse competed for
$37K
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 12 state-championship entries
Master avg
631.31 / 720
12 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (9 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.
A tough matchup
12–0
behind in the head-to-head
Fat&Dumb BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Fat&Dumb BBQ has come out ahead in 12 of their 12 shared contests.
The weak link
−6.9
points behind their best meat
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.92 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
- Brisket avg 153.34
- Chicken avg 160.26
- 0 calls in 12 entries
A strong matchup
8–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 89% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of POKER SMOKERS in 8 of their 9 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) (2021-09-24).
- last seen 2019-09-27
- back 2021-09-24
Chicken nemesis
10 of 10
shared chicken entries lost
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has out-cooked them in 10 of 10 shared chicken entries.
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
Overland Pig Committee has landed one call behind them 2 times.
The metronome
±1.92%
swing around their own average
Their overall lands within ±1.92% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
- averages 87.7% of a perfect score
- 12 contests
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship every year from 2013 to 2016 — the contest they never miss.
- 7 visits in all
- best finish 64th
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.
54 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#5991 of the rated field
- Contests
- 12
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1433
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 12 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#6003 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1432
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 13 contests to 12, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5992 of the rated field
- Contests
- 13
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1433
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Bubba's Pig-a-licious's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#5993 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1433
No shared contest yet.
Level with Bubba's Pig-a-licious on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5988 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1433
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head#6002 of the rated field
- Contests
- 10
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1432
No shared contest yet.
This is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YARDHOGS BBQ | 12 | 8 | 4 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| Last Years Leftovers | 12 | 7 | 5 | 58% | ⚔ compare |
| Overland Pig Committee | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% | ⚔ compare |
| Why Not Smoke | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% | ⚔ compare |
| KC Rib doctor | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% | ⚔ compare |
| Grilligans Island | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% | ⚔ compare |
| This Little Piggy Got Smoked | 12 | 2 | 10 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Fat&Dumb BBQ | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| T'S SMOKIN PIT | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| IHC BBQ | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| F.O.M.S.B. | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| SMF | 11 | 7 | 4 | 64% | ⚔ compare |
| ALMOST FLAMOUS BARBEQUE | 11 | 4 | 7 | 36% | ⚔ compare |
| Evening Wood | 11 | 2 | 9 | 18% | ⚔ compare |
| HAWG HEAVEN | 11 | 2 | 9 | 18% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 145.0856 | 160.26 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 154.2056 | 160.11 | top 64% |
| Pork | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 138.2400 | 157.60 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 139.9544 | 153.34 | top 73% |
“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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 7 | 64 | 0 | top 80% | 2022-09-23 |
| Shawnee Great Grillers | 3 | 40 | 0 | top 66% | 2025-09-26 |
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque | 2 | 71 | 0 | top 71% | 2018-09-21 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
12 yrs
2013-09-27 → 2025-09-26
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 12 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
KS
12 of 12 contests
Contests visited
3
3 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
12 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.26 · weakest Brisket (153.34)
Walk rate
8%
a top-10 call in 1 of 12 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 12 contests
Master average
631.31
out of 720 · 12 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
345
279–865 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
5
12 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1517
average field rating faced — tougher than 12% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$36,725
listed at 6 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 12 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-09-27 → 2021-09-24
Power rating
1432
peak 1432 · #5998 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2013
- First tracked contest Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- Peak power rating (1488) Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- 2014
- First call Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4400 Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship
- 2023
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score653.6116 Shawnee Great Grillers
- 10th tracked contest Shawnee Great Grillers
- 2024
- Career-best overall score654.2168 Shawnee Great Grillers
- 2025
- Most recent contest Shawnee Great Grillers
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.9 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2024-09-27 |
| +1.9 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2023-09-22 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.9 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2013-09-27 |
| -9.8 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) | 2021-09-24 |
| -8.8 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2015-09-25 |
| -7.9 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2019-09-27 |
| -7.5 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2025-09-26 |
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 | 0% | top 87% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 87% | 87% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 66% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 72% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 83.9% | 83.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 58 / 67 (639.3028) | 48 (162.8684) | 50 (159.9544) | 65 (151.9428) | 36 (164.5372) |
| 2024-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 40 / 73 (654.2168) | 31 (169.6800) | 36 (166.2628) | 60 (158.3084) | 47 (159.9656) |
| 2023-09-22 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 42 / 73 (653.6116) | 42 (165.1200) | 49 (162.8116) | 37 (166.8228) | 44 (158.8572) |
| 2022-09-23 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 64 / 87 (636.9948) | 70 (158.2744) | 73 (154.2056) | 36 (165.7032) | 55 (158.8116) |
| 2021-09-24 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 77 / 86 (626.7084) | 81 (153.1316) | 76 (154.2400) | 44 (165.6912) | 69 (153.6456) |
| 2019-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 84 / 102 (623.2804) | 33 (168.0116) | 70 (159.3944) | 82 (155.9200) | 98 (139.9544) |
| 2018-09-21 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 71 / 107 (638.7428) | 47 (165.1428) | 73 (159.9772) | 69 (160.5256) | 81 (153.0972) |
| 2017-09-22 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 85 / 112 (631.8168) | 50 (163.3828) | 80 (156.5144) | 63 (162.2628) | 95 (149.6568) |
| 2016-09-23 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 84 / 111 (627.2800) | 86 (155.9656) | 74 (156.5488) | 71 (161.1428) | 79 (153.6228) |
| 2015-09-25 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 91 / 112 (616.5484) | 107 (149.1084) | 75 (158.8572) | 79 (154.8800) | 75 (153.7028) |
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 81 / 112 (622.7768) | 105 (145.0856) | 5 (175.4400) | 100 (149.7028) | 80 (152.5484) |
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 100 / 114 (604.4116) | 25 (167.3828) | 68 (157.0860) | 113 (138.2400) | 100 (141.7028) |