High-water mark
337.1316
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.1316 at Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Jun 12, 2026
Batons & Bones
Batons & Bones is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2026. Their best overall finish is 15th of 15 at the O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 (2026). They finished #203 in the 2026 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1474
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Apr 3, 2026
latest Jun 12, 2026
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 83%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±7.46
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 165.26 · weakest Pork Ribs (158.14)
Road miles
130
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Schedule strength
67%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1585)
Purse competed for
$17K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Backyard avg
327.50 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #203 (189 pts) | #216 (174 pts) | #193 (219 pts) | — | — |
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Batons & Bones, each with one reason worth a look.
Batons & Bones 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 142 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,428 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1474
Level with Batons & Bones on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#4,460 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Batons & Bones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,429 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
They were already cooking in 2016, 10 years before Batons & Bones's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,453 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1474
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 7 years before Batons & Bones's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#4,470 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
They've been 1504 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 161.1316 | 165.26 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 141.7256 | 158.14 | top 80% |
“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) | 2 | 0 | top 97% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 68% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2026
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
5 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced
92
finished ahead 26 times, behind 99
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20265 milestones
- Peak power rating (1493) Smoke on the Falls
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.9660 O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)170.8344 O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1
- Career-best overall score337.1316 Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
20251 milestone
- First tracked contest Battle for the Bones BBQ Cook Off (ONE MEAT RIBS)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.4 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | Jun 12, 2026 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.2 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 | May 2, 2026 |
| -9.4 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 | May 1, 2026 |
| -6.8 | Smoke on the Falls | Apr 3, 2026 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 93.6% | 91% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2026 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 19 / 31 (337.1316) | 21 (167.9772) | 16 (169.1544) | — | — |
| May 2, 2026 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 2 Cleveland, AL | 15 / 15 (322.7428) | 14 (164.5256) | 15 (158.2172) | — | — |
| May 1, 2026 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Cleveland, AL | 16 / 17 (331.9660) | 16 (161.1316) | 12 (170.8344) | — | — |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 27 / 36 (318.1716) | 16 (167.3944) | 31 (150.7772) | — | — |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Battle for the Bones BBQ Cook Off (ONE MEAT RIBS) Birmingham, AL | — | — | 16 (141.7256) | — | — |