A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Que's Your Daddy? ahead in 100% of their meetings
Que's Your Daddy? has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Big Smokers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1493
peak 1501 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-08-20
latest 2023-09-16
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 56%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
308.73
last 4 Backyard vs avg 308.73 (+0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±12.47
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 159.73 · weakest Chicken (149.00)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$2K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
308.73 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
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.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Broken Bones in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Big Smokers 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 130 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.
#3506 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1493
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#3491 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3496 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Big Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before Big Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3494 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Big Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3483 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 7 years before Big Smokers'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8688 | 139.3828 | 149.00 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7600 | 148.5832 | 159.73 | top 41% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 58% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) | 4 | 9 | 0 | top 56% | 2023-09-16 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.1 yrs
2022-08-20 → 2023-09-16
Busiest season
—
2 contests
Contests a season
1.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
IL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 159.73 · weakest Chicken (149.00)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
25%
1 of 4 contests
Backyard average
308.73
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
86
68–81 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$2,400
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
1.1 yrs
2022-08-20 → 2023-09-16
Power rating
1493
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score320.6288 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)165.7600 Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Most recent contest Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 50% | 89.1% | 84.5% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-16 | Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 26 / 35 (315.3828) | 28 (152.5600) | 18 (162.8228) | — | — |
| 2022-08-20 | Vine St. BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 20 / 41 (310.9376) | 30 (149.1888) | 16 (161.7488) | — | — |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 9 / 38 (320.6288) | 18 (154.8688) | 6 (165.7600) | — | — | |
| Vine St BBQ Competition & Fest (BACKYARD ONLY) Park Ridge, IL | 30 / 39 (287.9660) | 35 (139.3828) | 23 (148.5832) | — | — |