Top IFOCE / MLE calendar-year winning percentages
A list of the top calendar-year winning percentage in IFOCE / MLE contests is available after the jump. Kobayashi obviously has the top winning percentage of 100% for the years 2001-2006. Joey Chestnut in 2010 has the top percentage (81.25%) for someone competing in 10 or more contests. (He would have had a percentage of 85.7% (12/14) in 2011 if he won the CP Biggest eater qualifier). Percentages of 50% or more for people competing in at least four contests have been listed. The second column is number of wins, the third is number of contests and the fourth is the fraction of contests won.
The new poll asks what do you think is the best calendar year in IFOCE history.
| 2005 | 7 | 7 | 1.0000 | $20000 | Takeru Kobayashi |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 1.0000 | $28000 | Takeru Kobayashi |
| 1993 | 4 | 4 | 1.0000 | Mike “The Scholar” DeVito | |
| 2010 | 13 | 16 | 0.8125 | $32250 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 2004 | 15 | 19 | 0.7895 | $16750 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas |
| 2011 | 11 | 14 | 0.7857 | $43000 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 2005 | 19 | 26 | 0.7308 | $37750 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas |
| 2011 | 18 | 25 | 0.7200 | $39750 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| 2003 | 5 | 7 | 0.7143 | $1550 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas |
| 2007 | 17 | 24 | 0.7083 | $63000 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 2003 | 6 | 9 | 0.6667 | $2500 | Ed “Cookie” Jarvis |
| 2007 | 16 | 24 | 0.6667 | $41000 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| 2008 | 10 | 15 | 0.6667 | $49950 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 2006 | 15 | 24 | 0.6250 | $48750 | Joey “Jaws” Chestnut |
| 2005 | 3 | 5 | 0.6000 | $1450 | Sam “Big Country” Vise |
| 2004 | 7 | 12 | 0.5833 | $8000 | Rich “The Locust” LeFevre |
| 2003 | 5 | 9 | 0.5556 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | |
| 2004 | 5 | 9 | 0.5556 | $3500 | Dale “Mouth of the South” Boone |
| 2005 | 10 | 19 | 0.5263 | $8950 | Ed “Cookie” Jarvis |
| 2006 | 14 | 27 | 0.5185 | $35800 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 | 0.5000 | $1500 | Patrick Vandam |
| 2010 | 10 | 20 | 0.5000 | $23400 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| 2008 | 11 | 22 | 0.5000 | $35650 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 | 0.5000 | Oleg Zhornitskiy | |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 | 0.5000 | $10000 | Takeru Kobayashi |
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Anonymous said
December 29, 2011 @ 8:02 pm
Joey should have his student loans about covered.
Arnie said
December 30, 2011 @ 6:46 am
What about the Beautiful Brian Sieken era of 1998-2011?
Hmm said (Registered November 12, 2009)
December 30, 2011 @ 8:59 am
Really Arnie? Another throwaway comment, polluter is your real name whoever you are.
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
December 30, 2011 @ 9:50 am
As great as Koby is, given that he does only a handful of contests a year, I wouldn’t put his performance above Joey, Pat, or Sonya for any year since 2003, when Sonya started competing. When you look at cumulative effort throughout a given year, his effort just doesn’t stack up against any of those three.
I also have to side with Cookie, Booker, The Godfather, and Don “Moses” Lerman over Koby in 2001 and 2002, based on that same logic.
Hmm said (Registered November 12, 2009)
December 30, 2011 @ 10:23 am
While I am here, Rhonda’s comment is very interesting but I would add here that all of this comparing has many difficulties, particularly related to Kobayashi. I do not think you can put him into the mix in the same way as he really was not fully in the States during those times. We will never really know, aside from Nathans, fully, how to compare Koby and Joey etc. I am guessing that from the time Kobayashi appeared on the Nathans scene and won, surely MLE brought him over for Nathans and perhaps for Krystals. Otherwise, even though he could have surely won many many MLE contests in the States, coming from Japan given the prize money and not living here full time would have been ridiculous. We will never ever know now. Really too bad because it would have been great to have him on the circuit fully. Timing is everything.
Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)
December 30, 2011 @ 11:27 am
Hmm, I can appreciate your assertion, but I think given the parameters of OJ’s poll, Koby has to be in the mix. He was an IFOCE eater during the time frame being considered.
OJ is asking who we think had the best year. It is unfortunate, surely, that Koby didn’t compete against US-based eaters except for major events, and from 2001-2006 he smoked everybody! However, I’m simply saying that I don’t base my interpretation of what constitutes a best year by conjecturing what might have happened, given this or that circumstance (and I don’t mean that in a terse way).
IIf the poll asked which eater I thought was the most dominant in a given year my response would be identical. A few dominating performances during a year don’t translate into eater dominance throughout the year, at least not to me.
But, that’s why they make Fords, Chevy’s, Cadillacs, and Toyotas. 🙂
anonymous said
December 30, 2011 @ 6:24 pm
Whoever left that stupid comment about the Brian seiken era is a moron. It was not seiken I think that’s obvious
Anonymous said
January 2, 2012 @ 12:08 pm
Seiken is a alien.
Anonymous said
January 2, 2012 @ 12:33 pm
From another country or another planet? Can he speak foreign languages? Man that wood be kool.
beautifulbrian said
January 2, 2012 @ 12:53 pm
I am not responsible for any of those stupid comments but none of you will believe me
Larger View said
January 2, 2012 @ 1:06 pm
I believe you Brian.
Smaller View said
January 2, 2012 @ 1:36 pm
I DON’T