High-water mark
473.0512
career-best overall
131.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 473.0512 at Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY) — 131.4% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-09-23
Boosted BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1454
peak 1454 · rated over 7 contests ⓘ
Contests
11
in the data
First seen
2023-09-22
latest 2025-08-09
Best ToY finish
#248
Backyard 2024
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 11 contests
Avg finish
top 79%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
307.01 ▼
last 5 Backyard vs avg 332.83 (-25.82)
Walk rate
18%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±57.81
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 160.83 · weakest Pork (150.24)
Road miles
539
mi across 11 mapped stops · furthest 429 mi
Schedule strength
79%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1602)
Purse competed for
$31K
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 6 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
332.83 / 360
7 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (7 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
Troublemaker BBQ has finished one call ahead of Boosted BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Their season
2024
their best year
2024 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 67%.
- 5 contests
- 0 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 67%
A tough matchup
7–0
behind in the head-to-head
Dogpatch Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Dogpatch Q has come out ahead in 7 of their 7 shared contests.
A strong matchup
5–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BIG DOG BBQ VA in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Pork Ribs nemesis
7 of 7
shared pork ribs entries lost
RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE has out-cooked them in 7 of 7 shared pork ribs entries.
Boom or bust
±16.06%
swing around their own average
Their overall swings ±16.06% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.
- averages 92.5% of a perfect score
- best 131.4%
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.
122 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
#5335 of the rated field
- Contests
- 14
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 7%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 14 contests to 11, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#5342 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1509 at their best, 55 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#5356 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Boosted BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#5331 of the rated field
- Contests
- 8
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Boosted BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#5357 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
Level with Boosted BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#5329 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1454
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Boosted BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Buckshot's BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Dogpatch Q | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Gold-N-Blue Barbecue | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Mad Hatter BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Piggy & Swine BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| The Swine Doctor's BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| BROCK'S BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Troublemaker BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Goudas Barbecue | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| BIG DOG BBQ VA | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| LAKEVIEW BBQ | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| smokey anderson bbq | 5 | 3 | 1 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| K-10 BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2744 | 139.9428 | 153.81 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 150.2516 | 160.83 | top 58% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 137.0400 | 150.24 | top 68% |
| 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) | 5 | 0 | top 86% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triple Crown BBQ (Day 2) | 2 | 19 | 0 | top 78% | 2025-08-09 |
| BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 62% | 2024-03-23 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.9 yrs
2023-09-22 → 2025-08-09
Busiest season
2024
5 contests
Contests a season
2.8
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
VA
9 of 11 contests · 2 states/provinces in all
Contests visited
5
2 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
9 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 160.83 · weakest Pork (150.24)
Walk rate
18%
a top-10 call in 2 of 11 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 11 contests
Backyard average
332.83
out of 360 · 7 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
102
54–259 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
539
11 mapped stops · furthest 429 mi
Schedule strength
1602
average field rating faced — tougher than 79% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$30,980
listed at 9 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 6 state-championship entries
Power rating
1454
peak 1454 · #5334 of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1487) Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score473.0512 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score473.0512 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1428 Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2026
- 10th tracked contest Mass in May (ONE MEAT RIBS)
- Most recent contest Mass in May (ONE MEAT CHICKEN)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-09-22 |
| -10.4 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-09-23 |
| -5.6 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1) | 2024-08-09 |
| -5.4 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 1) | 2025-08-08 |
| -5 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 2) | 2025-08-09 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 87% | 87% |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 86.8% | 84.2% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 98% | 131.4% | 110.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-16 | Mass in May (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Wrentham, MA | — | 22 (158.2400) | — | — | — |
| 2026-05-16 | Mass in May (ONE MEAT RIBS) Wrentham, MA | — | — | 5 (172.5600) | — | — |
| 2025-08-09 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 2) 🏅 Doswell, VA | 19 / 25 (313.1088) | 19 (156.5600) | 19 (156.5488) | — | — |
| 2025-08-08 | Triple Crown BBQ (Day 1) 🏅 Doswell, VA | 20 / 25 (313.0632) | 20 (157.1200) | 21 (155.9432) | — | — |
| 2024-08-09 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Ashland, VA | — | 22 (154.2628) | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-09 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown (Day 1) 🏅 Ashland, VA | 21 / 27 (300.4800) | 21 (139.9428) | 14 (160.5372) | 21 (137.0400) | — |
| 2024-03-23 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 2) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 27 / 42 (295.8516) | 28 (142.7772) | 26 (153.0744) | 17 (162.2628) | — |
| 2024-03-22 | BBQ Gives Back (Day 1) (Masters and Backyard) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 27 / 45 (312.5260) | 21 (162.2744) | 28 (150.2516) | 24 (157.7144) | — |
| 2024-03-22 | BBQ Gives Back (One Meat Chicken) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-23 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 2 (BACKYARD ONLY) Ashland, VA | 19 / 20 (473.0512) | 18 (155.9656) | 6 (173.1428) | 20 (143.9428) | — |
| 2023-09-22 | Americamps BBQ Throwdown - Day 1 (BACKYARD ONLY) Ashland, VA | 24 / 24 (321.7028) | 23 (157.1084) | 18 (164.5944) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #248 (172 pts) | #200 (254 pts) | #231 (207 pts) | — | — |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | — | #1238 (62 pts) | — | — | — |