The heartbreaker
0.0228
points from the title
Came within 0.0228 points of the Grand Championship at The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-05-03).
Porky Blinders
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1526
peak 1526 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-05-03
latest 2025-03-07
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
3 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 22%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 176.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (174.57)
Road miles
27
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
349.98 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (3 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
355.4172
career-best overall
98.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 355.4172 at The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) — 98.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-05-03
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 10 at their very first tracked contest, The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-05-03).
- 2024-05-03
- 10-team field
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.
Porky Blinders has 2 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 73 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.
#2317 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1531
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2322 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1525
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Porky Blinders's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2311 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Porky Blinders's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Level with Porky Blinders on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2316 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Porky Blinders's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2312 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7028 | 173.1200 | 175.41 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.7144 | 171.4172 | 174.57 | top 27% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 7% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 20% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
The story so far (15 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.8 yrs
2024-05-03 → 2025-03-07
Busiest season
2025
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 176.00 · weakest Pork Ribs (174.57)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
349.98
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
36
31–7 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
27
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$9,150
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1526
peak 1526 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall podium The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First Reserve Championship The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score355.4172 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score355.4172 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)177.7144 The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- Most recent contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 95.7% | 95.7% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 98.7% | 98.7% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 7 / 30 (344.5372) | 8 (173.1200) | 10 (171.4172) | 2 (176.0000) | — |
| 2024-05-03 | The Gulf Coast BBQ Championship (BACKYARD ONLY) Mobile, AL | 2 / 10 (355.4172) | 3 (177.7028) | 2 (177.7144) | — | — |