High-water mark
467.8856
career-best overall
130.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 467.8856 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 130.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-03-12
Yardbird's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1485
peak 1485 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-03-12
latest 2022-03-12
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 80%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 160.82 · weakest Pork (151.67)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
464.18 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 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.
Yardbird's BBQ has 2 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 148 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.
#3890 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3881 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with Yardbird's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3879 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before Yardbird's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3869 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1486
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3888 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1485
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3887 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Yardbird's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 157.7028 | 160.82 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 146.8112 | 151.69 | top 80% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9656 | 147.3828 | 151.67 | top 85% |
| 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 80% | 2022-03-12 |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2021-03-12 → 2022-03-12
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 160.82 · weakest Pork (151.67)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
464.18
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
11–41 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$8,350
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Longest layoff
1 yrs
2021-03-12 → 2022-03-12
Power rating
1485
peak 1485 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score460.4796 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2022
- Career-best overall score467.8856 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)163.9428 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 130% | 130% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 127.9% | 127.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-12 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 22 / 26 (467.8856) | 12 (163.9428) | 22 (156.5600) | 24 (147.3828) | — |
| 2021-03-12 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 21 / 28 (460.4796) | 20 (157.7028) | 21 (146.8112) | 22 (155.9656) | — |