High-water mark
337.1088
career-best overall
93.6% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.1088 at Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY) — 93.6% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-04-26
J Monroes
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1496
peak 1510 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2019-04-26
latest 2019-07-26
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 65%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
324.12
last 3 Backyard vs avg 324.12 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±16.41
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.53 · weakest Pork (158.22)
Road miles
89
mi across 3 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Schedule strength
20%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1527)
Purse competed for
$13K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 1 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
324.12 / 360
3 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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
HELL ON SQUEALS ahead in 100% of their meetings
HELL ON SQUEALS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
J Monroes 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 117 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.
#3340 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3366 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1507
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after J Monroes did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#3363 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1496
No shared contest yet.
Level with J Monroes on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3369 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#3342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before J Monroes'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1316 | 151.3372 | 164.53 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 149.6344 | 159.59 | top 74% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2168 | 158.2168 | 158.22 | top 80% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2019-04-26 → 2019-07-26
Busiest season
2019
3 contests
Cooks most in
AL
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.53 · weakest Pork (158.22)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 3 contests
Backyard average
324.12
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
104
46–81 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
89
3 mapped stops · furthest 38 mi
Schedule strength
1527
average field rating faced — tougher than 20% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$12,925
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 1 state-championship entries
Power rating
1496
peak 1510 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2019
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY)
- First call Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.1088 Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY)
- Career-best overall score337.1088 Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)173.1316 Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY)
- Peak power rating (1510) Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.3 | Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY) | 2019-04-26 |
| +2.6 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2019-06-07 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.6 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off | 2019-07-26 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 65% | 93.6% | 90% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-26 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Hartselle, AL | 33 / 27 (300.9716) | 29 (151.3372) | 31 (149.6344) | — | — |
| 2019-06-07 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 11 / 25 (334.2860) | 6 (169.1316) | 14 (165.1544) | — | — |
| 2019-04-26 | Smoke on the Water Festival (BACKYARD ONlY) Florence, AL | 13 / 45 (337.1088) | 8 (173.1316) | 23 (163.9772) | 36 (158.2168) | — |