High-water mark
490.7772
career-best overall
136.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 490.7772 at Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) — 136.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-04-02
Team Spirit
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1479
peak 1479 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2019-04-05
latest 2023-04-14
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
448.49
last 4 Backyard vs avg 448.49 (-0.00)
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±67.02
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 166.26 · weakest Chicken (160.40)
Road miles
3
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
33%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1544)
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
448.49 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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 tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team ahead in 100% of their meetings
Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) (2021-04-17).
- last seen 2019-04-05
- back 2021-04-17
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.
Team Spirit has 4 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 144 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.
#4166 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
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#4143 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Level with Team Spirit on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4169 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head#4151 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
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#4144 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
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#4186 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1479
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Team Spirit'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 | 168.0000 | 155.9200 | 160.40 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8572 | 162.2516 | 166.26 | top 62% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 157.7028 | 162.45 | top 67% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 74% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 76% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 13 | 0 | top 81% | 2023-04-14 |
| Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 13 | 0 | top 69% | 2021-04-17 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2019-04-05 → 2023-04-14
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
2
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 166.26 · weakest Chicken (160.40)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 2 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
448.49
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
50
19–53 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
3
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1544
average field rating faced — tougher than 33% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,000
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2 yrs
2019-04-05 → 2021-04-17
Power rating
1479
peak 1479 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score332.5372 Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1494) Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2021
- First call Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2022
- Career-best overall score490.7772 Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Most recent contest Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-04-02 |
| -6.3 | Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-04-05 |
| -4 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-04-14 |
| -2.7 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2021-04-17 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 76% | 133.9% | 133.9% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 136.3% | 136.3% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 67% | 135.7% | 135.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-14 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) 🏅 Chelsea, AL | 13 / 17 (482.1372) | 13 (155.9200) | 12 (162.2516) | 10 (163.9656) | — |
| 2022-04-02 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) Chelsea, AL | 17 / 20 (490.7772) | 17 (161.7144) | 18 (163.3828) | 14 (165.6800) | — |
| 2021-04-17 | Fire at the Foothills (BACKYARD ONLY) Chelsea, AL | 14 / 21 (488.5144) | 19 (155.9544) | 2 (174.8572) | 15 (157.7028) | — |
| 2019-04-05 | Fire at the Foothills(BACKYARD ONLY) Chelsea, AL | 13 / 18 (332.5372) | 12 (168.0000) | 14 (164.5372) | — | — |