High-water mark
334.8000
career-best overall
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8000 at Smoke on the Falls — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-04-08
Smokin A Fatty BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1503
peak 1503 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-03-08
latest 2022-04-08
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 57%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
329.07
last 3 Backyard vs avg 329.07 (-0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±5.86
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 170.26 · weakest Chicken (158.82)
Road miles
60
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 40 mi
Schedule strength
21%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1529)
Purse competed for
$11K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.07 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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.
The one to beat
2×
one call ahead of them
Blowin Smoke BBQ has finished one call ahead of Smokin A Fatty BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Thin Blue Swine ahead in 100% of their meetings
Thin Blue Swine has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Simply Smoked in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
2.1 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at Smoke on the Falls (2022-04-08).
- last seen 2020-03-06
- back 2022-04-08
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 A Fatty BBQ has 3 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 108 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.
#3084 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3071 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Smokin A Fatty BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3091 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smokin A Fatty BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3096 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3081 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1512
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 4 years before Smokin A Fatty BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before Smokin A Fatty BBQ'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 155.4060 | 158.82 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 163.9428 | 170.26 | top 31% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 55% | 2020-03-06 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3.1 yrs
2019-03-08 → 2022-04-08
Busiest season
2022
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
2
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 170.26 · weakest Chicken (158.82)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
329.07
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
122
78–75 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
60
3 mapped stops · furthest 40 mi
Schedule strength
1529
average field rating faced — tougher than 21% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$11,220
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.1 yrs
2020-03-06 → 2022-04-08
Power rating
1503
peak 1503 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2020
- First call Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.4060 Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.0000 Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2022
- Career-best overall score334.8000 Smoke on the Falls
- Peak power rating (1503) Smoke on the Falls
- Most recent contest Smoke on the Falls
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.4 | Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2020-03-06 |
| +3.8 | Smoke on the Falls | 2022-04-08 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11 | Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-03-08 |
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 | 100% | top 62% | 93% | 93% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-08 | Smoke on the Falls 🏅 Gadsden, AL | 21 / 34 (334.8000) | 32 (163.9772) | 9 (170.8228) | — | — |
| 2020-03-06 | Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) Hartselle, AL | 8 / 32 (331.4060) | 27 (155.4060) | 2 (176.0000) | — | — |
| 2019-03-08 | Corums Building Center BBQ(BACKYARD ONLY) Harselle, AL | 29 / 34 (321.0172) | 30 (157.0744) | 21 (163.9428) | — | — |