High-water mark
609.5432
career-best overall
169.3% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 609.5432 at Lakeland Pig Festival — 169.3% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2023-01-27
Yee Haw BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1477
peak 1477 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2023-01-27
latest 2026-01-22
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 78%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
393.05
last 4 Backyard vs avg 393.05 (+0.00)
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±125.29
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 162.27 · weakest Brisket (152.53)
Road miles
0
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1557)
Purse competed for
$75K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 4 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
393.05 / 360
4 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
Bourbon & Blues BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Bourbon & Blues BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
3–1
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Lazy J Barbecue in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
A standing appointment
4
years running at one contest
They've cooked Lakeland Pig Festival every year from 2023 to 2026 — the contest they never miss.
- 4 visits in all
- best finish 27th
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.
Yee Haw BBQ has 4 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 133 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.
#4234 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head#4251 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Level with Yee Haw BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4257 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 4 years before Yee Haw BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4245 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1477
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before Yee Haw BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#4229 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Yee Haw BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4232 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1478
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Yee Haw BBQ'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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 152.5716 | 162.27 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 145.6344 | 152.94 | top 88% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 153.6572 | 161.67 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 139.3716 | 152.53 | top 74% |
“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 | 4 | 27 | 0 | top 78% | 2026-01-22 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2023-01-27 → 2026-01-22
Busiest season
2026
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 4 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
FL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 162.27 · weakest Brisket (152.53)
Walk rate
0%
a top-10 call in 0 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
393.05
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
237
95–324 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1557
average field rating faced — tougher than 43% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$75,000
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 4 state-championship entries
Power rating
1477
peak 1477 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2023
- First tracked contest Lakeland Pig Festival
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score609.5432 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Career-best overall score609.5432 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Peak power rating (1487) Lakeland Pig Festival
- 2026
- Career-best single call (Pork)168.5256 Lakeland Pig Festival
- Most recent contest Lakeland Pig Festival
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.3 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2026-01-22 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.2 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2023-01-27 |
| -10.5 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2024-01-26 |
| -0.2 | Lakeland Pig Festival | 2025-01-24 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 102% | 169.3% | 169.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 32 / 63 (324.5028) | 16 (168.0000) | 41 (156.5028) | 15 (168.5256) | 38 (154.2400) |
| 2025-01-24 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 27 / 40 (330.8344) | 16 (167.9772) | 36 (162.8572) | 31 (162.2628) | 48 (139.3716) |
| 2024-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 55 / 61 (307.3144) | 39 (160.5372) | 57 (146.7772) | 28 (162.2516) | 26 (158.8228) |
| 2023-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | 52 / 51 (609.5432) | 47 (152.5716) | 52 (145.6344) | 50 (153.6572) | 37 (157.6800) |