High-water mark
455.8740
career-best overall
126.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 455.8740 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 126.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-03-10
Pen Air
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1490
peak 1490 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2023-03-10
latest 2023-03-10
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 87%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.53 · weakest Pork Ribs (141.62)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
455.87 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
Pen Air has 1 rated contest — 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 157 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.
#3666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pen Air's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3651 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Pen Air's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3654 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1503
No shared contest yet.
Level with Pen Air on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3661 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pen Air's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3683 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1489
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pen Air's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3645 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Pen Air'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 160.5256 | 160.53 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6228 | 141.6228 | 141.62 | top 97% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7256 | 153.7256 | 153.73 | top 77% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2023-03-10 → 2023-03-10
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Cooks most in
AL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.53 · weakest Pork Ribs (141.62)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 1 contests
Backyard average
455.87
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
30
4–26 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$7,350
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1490
peak 1490 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score455.8740 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score455.8740 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)160.5256 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 0% | top 87% | 126.6% | 126.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-10 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 27 / 31 (455.8740) | 20 (160.5256) | 30 (141.6228) | 24 (153.7256) | — |