High-water mark
469.5428
career-best overall
130.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 469.5428 at Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) — 130.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2021-10-01
Big Willie's BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1491
peak 1502 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-07-16
latest 2021-10-01
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 157.97 · weakest Pork (148.51)
Road miles
41
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
385.61 / 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.
Big Willie'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 145 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.
#3573 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3620 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Big Willie's BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-head#3574 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Big Willie's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3610 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Big Willie's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3609 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3618 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1491
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 153.1200 | 157.97 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 158.2056 | 148.5488 | 153.38 | top 61% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5144 | 148.5144 | 148.51 | top 100% |
| 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) | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2021-07-16 → 2021-10-01
Busiest season
2021
2 contests
Cooks most in
OK
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 157.97 · weakest Pork (148.51)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
50%
1 of 2 contests
Backyard average
385.61
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
38
11–28 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
41
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$13,075
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1491
peak 1502 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest County Seat Cookoff
- First call County Seat Cookoff
- First overall top-10 County Seat Cookoff
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score469.5428 Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD)
- Career-best overall score469.5428 Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)162.8228 Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD)
- Most recent contest Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 66% | 130.4% | 107.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-01 | Que' For a Cause (BACKYARD) Tahlequah, OK | 17 / 20 (469.5428) | 15 (162.8228) | 15 (158.2056) | 20 (148.5144) | — |
| 2021-07-16 | County Seat Cookoff Jay, OK | 7 / 15 (301.6688) | 7 (153.1200) | 7 (148.5488) | — | — |