The heartbreaker
0.5484
points from the title
Came within 0.5484 points of the Grand Championship at Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) (2026-08-22).
Slab Daddy
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1517
peak 1517 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2026-08-22
latest 2026-08-22
Best ToY finish
#155
Backyard 2026
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 13%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 176.57 · weakest Chicken (173.74)
Purse competed for
$3K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
350.31 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here. Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
High-water mark
350.3088
career-best overall
97.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 350.3088 at Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) — 97.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2026-08-22
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.
Slab Daddy has 1 rated contest — 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 94 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.
#2582 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slab Daddy's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2567 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1524
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2021, 5 years before Slab Daddy's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2569 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
Level with Slab Daddy on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2585 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Slab Daddy'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, 12 years before Slab Daddy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2592 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1527
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slab Daddy's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 173.7372 | 173.74 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5716 | 176.5716 | 176.57 | top 13% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2026-08-22 → 2026-08-22
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Cooks most in
IL
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 176.57 · weakest Chicken (173.74)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
350.31
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
15
14–1 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$3,400
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1517
peak 1517 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2026
- First tracked contest Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score350.3088 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score350.3088 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)176.5716 Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 13% | 97.3% | 97.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | Smoke on the Midway (BACKYARD ONLY) Fairbury, IL | 2 / 16 (350.3088) | 7 (173.7372) | 2 (176.5716) | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | #155 (241 pts) | #218 (146 pts) | #169 (241 pts) | — | — |