High-water mark
333.7372
career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 333.7372 at Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) — 92.7% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-10-04
Rump Rubbers
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1521
peak 1521 · rated over 3 contests ⓘ
Contests
3
in the data
First seen
2021-10-29
latest 2024-10-25
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 3 contests
Avg finish
top 35%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
323.19
last 3 Backyard vs avg 323.19 (+0.00)
Walk rate
67%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±11.43
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 162.45 · weakest Chicken (160.74)
Road miles
30
mi across 3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
86%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1617)
Purse competed for
$7K
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
323.19 / 360
3 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.
The comeback
2.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.9 years, then back at Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) (2024-10-04).
- last seen 2021-10-29
- back 2024-10-04
They cook the hard rooms
1617
average field rating faced
A tougher draw than 86% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1617 power rating — a tougher draw than 86% of every rated contest in the data.
- 3 rated contests
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.
Rump Rubbers has 3 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 80 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.
#2467 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head#2480 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#2479 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Level with Rump Rubbers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2464 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Rump Rubbers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2469 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1521
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Rump Rubbers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2482 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Rump Rubbers'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 157.0972 | 160.74 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4628 | 150.2172 | 162.45 | top 25% |
| 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.
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 23% |
The story so far (17 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
3 yrs
2021-10-29 → 2024-10-25
Busiest season
2024
2 contests
Contests a season
1.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
MO
3 of 3 contests
Contests visited
3
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
3 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 162.45 · weakest Chicken (160.74)
Walk rate
67%
a top-10 call in 2 of 3 contests
Overall top-10 rate
33%
1 of 3 contests
Backyard average
323.19
out of 360 · 3 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
117
84–50 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
30
3 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1617
average field rating faced — tougher than 86% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$7,275
listed at 2 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.9 yrs
2021-10-29 → 2024-10-04
Power rating
1521
peak 1521 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2021
- First tracked contest Boo-B-Que - Day 1
- First call Boo-B-Que - Day 1
- First overall top-10 Boo-B-Que - Day 1
- 2024
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score333.7372 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score333.7372 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)175.4628 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1521) Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) (MASTERS and BACKYARD)
- Most recent contest Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) (MASTERS and BACKYARD)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.5 | Boo-B-Que - Day 1 | 2021-10-29 |
| +9.8 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) (MASTERS and BACKYARD) | 2024-10-25 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.6 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-10-04 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 41% | 92.7% | 92% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 22% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-25 | Boo-B-Que BBQ Championship (Day 1) (MASTERS and BACKYARD) 🏅 Oak Grove, MO | 13 / 53 (328.5260) | 11 (166.8572) | 15 (161.6688) | — | — |
| 2024-10-04 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 11 / 19 (333.7372) | 18 (158.2744) | 5 (175.4628) | — | — |
| 2021-10-29 | Boo-B-Que - Day 1 🏅 Unity Village, MO | 9 / 41 (307.3144) | 6 (157.0972) | 8 (150.2172) | — | — |