A tough matchup
3–0
behind in the head-to-head
Modest Meats ahead in 100% of their meetings
Modest Meats has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Bad Dog's BBQ
Bad Dog's BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 4 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2024 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 16th of 18 at the Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024). They finished #215 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1453
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
Sep 27, 2024
latest Mar 21, 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 97%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±8.01
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 151.69 · weakest Chicken (149.99)
Road miles
223
across 4 mapped stops · furthest 93 mi
Schedule strength
47%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1561)
Purse competed for
$58K
listed at 4 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 1 state-championship entry
Backyard avg
301.68 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1316 | 138.8340 | 149.99 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 135.9428 | 151.69 | top 92% |
“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
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 99% |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
3 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
4
a different one every time
Opponents faced
191
finished ahead 3 times, behind 219
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20251 milestone
- Most recent contest Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY)
20244 milestones
- First tracked contest Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score310.2628 Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)160.5600 Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1491) Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.3 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Oct 18, 2024 |
| -12 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Mar 21, 2025 |
| -11.7 | Poosa Q | Oct 4, 2024 |
| -9.1 | Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 27, 2024 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 86.2% | 83.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2025 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | 43 / 43 (309.0856) | 43 (154.2856) | 40 (154.8000) | — | — |
| Oct 18, 2024 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 50 / 50 (293.0744) | 43 (157.1316) | 50 (135.9428) | — | — |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Poosa Q 🏅 Montgomery, AL | 58 / 59 (294.3084) | 58 (138.8340) | 54 (155.4744) | — | — |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Central AL BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Clanton, AL | 16 / 18 (310.2628) | 18 (149.7028) | 15 (160.5600) | — | — |