High-water mark
499.4288
career-best overall
92.5% of a perfect 540
Their best day on record: 499.4288 at Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show — 92.5% of a perfect 540.
- Backyard
- Aug 9, 2019
BACKYARD PORKERS
BACKYARD PORKERS is a competition barbecue team with 19 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record in 2019. Their best overall finish is 3rd of 23 at the Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) ().
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1513
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 1
Contests
19
in the data
First seen
Aug 9, 2019
latest Aug 9, 2019
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podium
Overall top-10s
2
11% of 19 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight overall top-10s, still running
Avg finish
top 15%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
16%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 170.57 · weakest Chicken (164.55)
Road miles
2,295
across 18 mapped stops · furthest 211 mi
Purse competed for
$12K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Backyard avg
345.74 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg
499.43 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 0 GCs
These overall scores sit on different scales (Backyard out of 360, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to BACKYARD PORKERS, each with one reason worth a look.
BACKYARD PORKERS has 1 rated contest, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 131 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,699 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
Fewer contests behind them than BACKYARD PORKERS has cooked, 5 to 19, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,679 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
Level with BACKYARD PORKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,694 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Compare careers#2,714 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1513
Fewer contests behind them than BACKYARD PORKERS has cooked, 5 to 19, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Compare careers#2,707 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1524
They were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before BACKYARD PORKERS's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1521
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before BACKYARD PORKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 160.5372 | 164.55 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1772 | 154.2400 | 164.96 | top 41% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.4400 | 169.7028 | 170.57 | top 14% |
“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 field size and state
More numbers
Busiest season
2014
5 contests
Contests a season
2.4
across 8 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
8 of 19 contests · 3 states in all
Contests visited
2
a different one every time
Opponents faced
61
finished ahead 50 times, behind 10
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20192 milestones
- Career-best overall score499.4288 Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
- Most recent contest Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show
20151 milestone
- 10th tracked contest Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff
—6 milestones
- First tracked contest Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score345.7372 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1772 Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 96% | 96% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 17% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2019 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show 🏅 Franklin, NC | 5 / 29 (499.4288) | 8 (160.5372) | 4 (167.4516) | 3 (171.4400) | — |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 29 (160.5484) | 38 (154.2400) | 7 (169.7028) | — |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 7, 2017 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 12, 2016 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Decatur Jaycee's 21st Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 22, 2015 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 10, 2015 | Smoke on the Falls Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 19, 2014 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Frankllin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| May 24, 2014 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 18, 2014 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sep 13, 2013 | Decatur Jaycees 19th Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Aug 9, 2013 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Scottsboro BBQ Cook Off Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Scottsboro, AL | 3 / 23 (345.7372) | 6 (172.5600) | 4 (173.1772) | — | — |