High-water mark
337.6916
career-best overall
93.8% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 337.6916 at Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.8% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2025-03-07
A&J Catering
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1504
peak 1504 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2024-03-09
latest 2025-03-07
Best ToY finish
#297
Backyard 2025
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 52%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 166.27 · weakest Pork (158.53)
Road miles
0
mi across 2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
328.81 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (1 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.
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.
A&J Catering 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 114 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.
#3055 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1522
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before A&J Catering's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3064 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3042 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 8 years before A&J Catering's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#3046 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Level with A&J Catering on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3057 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1504
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before A&J Catering's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#3036 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1511
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before A&J Catering'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 162.2744 | 166.27 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4288 | 157.6572 | 162.54 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 149.6340 | 158.53 | 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.
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 52% | 2025-03-07 |
The story so far (14 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1 yrs
2024-03-09 → 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
1
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 166.27 · weakest Pork (158.53)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Backyard average
328.81
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
45
28–28 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
0
2 mapped stops
Purse competed for
$6,500
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1504
peak 1504 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2025
- First call Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score337.6916 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score337.6916 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)170.2628 Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 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 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 40% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
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 | 12 / 30 (337.6916) | 10 (170.2628) | 16 (167.4288) | 11 (167.4284) | — |
| 2024-03-09 | Foley BBQ & Blues Cook-Off (BACKYARD ONLY) Foley, AL | 18 / 28 (319.9316) | 13 (162.2744) | 21 (157.6572) | 28 (149.6340) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | #297 (120 pts) | #290 (130 pts) | #340 (100 pts) | — | — |