High-water mark
673.0744
career-best overall
187.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 673.0744 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 187.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-01-27
Shaken-Baken
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1516
peak 1516 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-01-25
latest 2023-01-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 38%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
645.77
last 3 Backyard vs avg 645.77 (+0.00)
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±22.71
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 169.12 · weakest Pork (151.95)
Road miles
0
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
30%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1540)
Purse competed for
$50K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
645.77 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (4 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.
A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Barely Sober BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Barely Sober BBQ 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 SMOKIN ACES BBQ - FL in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
The comeback
3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Lakeland Pig Festival (2023-01-27).
- last seen 2020-01-24
- back 2023-01-27
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.
Shaken-Baken 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 88 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.
#2600 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2602 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Shaken-Baken's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2608 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1523
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Shaken-Baken's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Level with Shaken-Baken on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2606 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 8 years before Shaken-Baken's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2589 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 9 years before Shaken-Baken'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 166.2400 | 168.16 | top 26% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 163.9772 | 169.12 | top 23% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 146.2512 | 151.95 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 129.6456 | 156.54 | top 38% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Pig Festival | 3 | 10 | 0 | top 38% | 2023-01-27 |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
4 yrs
2019-01-25 → 2023-01-27
Busiest season
2023
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 3 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 169.12 · weakest Pork (151.95)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 3 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
645.77
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
225
194–120 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1540
average field rating faced — tougher than 30% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$50,000
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
3 yrs
2020-01-24 → 2023-01-27
Power rating
1516
peak 1516 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First call Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score617.4740 Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2023
- First overall top-10 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score673.0744 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)174.8572 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1516) Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.2 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2023-01-27 |
| +9.3 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2020-01-24 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.1 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2019-01-25 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 187% | 187% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 179.7% | 179.7% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 69% | 171.5% | 171.5% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 10 / 51 (673.0744) | 19 (166.2628) | 7 (174.8572) | 30 (162.2628) | 8 (169.6916) |
| 2020-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 13 / 53 (646.7540) | 17 (166.2400) | 20 (163.9772) | 43 (146.2512) | 4 (170.2856) |
| 2019-01-25 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 40 / 58 (617.4740) | 5 (171.9656) | 10 (168.5372) | 44 (147.3256) | 53 (129.6456) |