About
- Site Goal
- National BBQ Rankings was created to provide barbeque cook teams from across the country the ability see where they rank on a national level.
- Ranking System
- Our ranking system uses a rolling 104 week period so each team's overall score is based on their contest finishes from the last 104 weeks only. For each contest teams ranked in the top 10 will receive points based on where they finish. This contest score is then weighted so that more recent contests are scored more heavily.
- Weighted Scoring
- As a contest gets older the value of that contest decays and after 104 weeks the team will no longer receive points for that contest. There are several bonus contests throughout the year which are worth 5 times the value of a regular contest.
- Bonus Score
- Currently the bonus contests are the American Royal Invitational, The Jack Daniels World Championships and The Best of the Best. Currently the National BBQ Rankings is only recognizing KCBS sanctioned contests for the purposes of ranking, but we are considering adding Florida BBQ Association and Memphis Barbeque Association event if the information is available. We hope that these rankings will help increase the overall enjoyment and participation in the sport of competitive BBQ and we look forward to seeing who the top teams are each and every week.