High-water mark
466.7772
career-best overall
129.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 466.7772 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 129.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-03-12
Smokin' Buddies
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1478
peak 1478 · 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 91%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 163.42 · weakest Pork (145.68)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$8K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
375.60 / 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.
Smokin' Buddies 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 150 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.
#4205 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4209 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#4210 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokin' Buddies on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4222 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Smokin' Buddies's first contest.
⚔ 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, 3 years before Smokin' Buddies's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4221 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Smokin' Buddies'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 | 163.4172 | 163.4172 | 163.42 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 138.1828 | 148.21 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2396 | 145.1200 | 145.68 | top 95% |
| 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 | 23 | 0 | top 91% | 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
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 163.42 · weakest Pork (145.68)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
375.60
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
39
5–47 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
1478
peak 1478 · #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)
- 2022
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score466.7772 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score466.7772 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)163.4172 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 88% | 129.7% | 129.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 79% | 79% |
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 | 23 / 26 (466.7772) | 13 (163.4172) | 18 (158.2400) | 25 (145.1200) | — |
| 2021-03-12 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 26 / 28 (284.4224) | — | 26 (138.1828) | 26 (146.2396) | — |