A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
SMOKE THIS BBQ MO ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKE THIS BBQ MO has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
BIG CREEK BBQ
BIG CREEK BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 7 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2020. Their best overall finish is 6th of 15 at the Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY) (2019). They finished #738 in the 2020 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1485
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
Jul 20, 2019
latest Jul 18, 2020 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
14% of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 69%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.12
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.71 · weakest Brisket (154.81)
Road miles
394
across 7 mapped stops · furthest 126 mi
Schedule strength
75%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1597)
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg
644.42 / 720
3 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard avg
331.99 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master 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.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to BIG CREEK BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
BIG CREEK BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 157 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#3,944 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1501
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to BIG CREEK BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BIG CREEK BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head#3,917 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,915 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
Level with BIG CREEK BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,945 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,933 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,942 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1509
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 169.1316 | 156.5828 | 165.71 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 175.4056 | 154.2744 | 165.69 | top 52% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 158.8456 | 160.14 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 147.9200 | 154.81 | top 88% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 87% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin on the Osage (Day 2) | 2 | 26 | 0 | top 95% | Jul 18, 2020 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2020
3 contests
Contests a season
2.3
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
MO
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
4
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
161
finished ahead 80 times, behind 126
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20201 milestone
- Most recent contest Smokin on the Osage (Day 2)
20196 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.4116 Smoking on the Osage BBQ contest and Car show
- Career-best overall score652.4116 Smoking on the Osage BBQ contest and Car show
- First category win (Pork Ribs) Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4056 Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1503) Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY)
20182 milestones
- First tracked contest Taste of the Ozarks (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Taste of the Ozarks (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.4 | Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY) | Aug 2, 2019 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 2) | Jul 18, 2020 |
| -7.3 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) | Jul 17, 2020 |
| -1.7 | Smoking on the Osage BBQ contest and Car show | Jul 20, 2019 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 91.4% | 89.8% |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 55% | 92.2% | 91.4% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2020 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 2) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 31 / 31 (637.5544) | 29 (165.6684) | 31 (154.2744) | 31 (160.5028) | 29 (157.1088) |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Smokin on the Osage (Day 1) 🏅 Osceola, MO | 26 / 29 (643.3028) | 23 (168.5600) | 18 (167.9772) | 27 (158.8456) | 28 (147.9200) |
| Apr 6, 2020 | Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO | 49 / 109 (164.5828) | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 2, 2019 | Smokin on The Harbor (BACKYARD ONLY) Warsaw, MO | 6 / 15 (331.9884) | 12 (156.5828) | 1 (175.4056) | — | — |
| Jul 20, 2019 | Smoking on the Osage BBQ contest and Car show 🏅 Osceola, MO | 19 / 27 (652.4116) | 17 (169.1316) | 19 (162.8000) | 18 (161.0856) | 20 (159.3944) |
| Aug 25, 2018 | Chamber Low and Slow Barbecue cook off (BACKYARD ONLY) Nevada, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 4, 2018 | Taste of the Ozarks (BACKYARD ONLY) Warsaw, MO | — | 2 (168.5828) | 4 (168.0116) | — | — |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.