High-water mark
335.4400
career-best overall
93.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 335.4400 at The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ — 93.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2019-05-03
Redstone Federal Credit Union
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1528
peak 1528 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
7
in the data
First seen
2019-05-03
latest 2024-10-18
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 7 contests
Avg finish
top 34%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
329.26
last 4 Backyard vs avg 329.26 (+0.00)
Walk rate
29%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
best run (overall)
Consistency
±4.64
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 165.11 · weakest Chicken (164.15)
Road miles
10
mi across 7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
21%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1529)
Purse competed for
$36K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 3 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
329.26 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (5 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
3–1
behind in the head-to-head
Hickory Hangover ahead in 75% of their meetings
Hickory Hangover has come out ahead in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
A strong matchup
4–0
ahead in the head-to-head
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Boob-B-Q in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
The comeback
2.3 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 2.3 years, then back at Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ (2021-08-13).
- last seen 2019-05-03
- back 2021-08-13
Looking over their shoulder
2×
one call behind them
That Just Ain't Right has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Redstone Federal Credit Union 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 75 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.
#2270 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 2
- Top-10s
- 60%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#2250 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1542
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 5 years after Redstone Federal Credit Union did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head#2264 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 100%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head#2260 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 71%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Level with Redstone Federal Credit Union on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2268 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1528
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Redstone Federal Credit Union's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2254 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1538
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Redstone Federal Credit Union'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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.0344 | 158.8344 | 164.15 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 161.6684 | 165.11 | top 31% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 60% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 25% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 9 | 0 | top 39% | 2022-09-08 |
The story so far (18 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
5.5 yrs
2019-05-03 → 2024-10-18
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 7 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
7 of 7 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
averages 165.11 · weakest Chicken (164.15)
Walk rate
29%
a top-10 call in 2 of 7 contests
Overall top-10 rate
29%
2 of 7 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests
Backyard average
329.26
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
243
274–86 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
10
7 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1529
average field rating faced — tougher than 21% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$36,300
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 3 state-championship entries
Longest layoff
2.3 yrs
2019-05-03 → 2021-08-13
Power rating
1528
peak 1528 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2016
- First tracked contest The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2019
- First call The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall top-10 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score335.4400 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- Career-best overall score335.4400 The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2022
- Peak power rating (1528) Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ
- 2024
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)173.1084 WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.2 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2019-05-03 |
| +11.4 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2021-08-13 |
| +1.7 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2022-09-08 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -0.2 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2024-10-18 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 90% | 90% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 18% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 7% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-18 | WhistleStop BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 25 / 50 (331.9428) | 38 (158.8344) | 6 (173.1084) | — | — |
| 2022-09-08 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 21 / 35 (324.0116) | 25 (161.7372) | 19 (162.2744) | — | — |
| 2021-08-13 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 9 / 49 (325.6456) | 11 (163.9772) | 13 (161.6684) | — | — |
| 2019-05-03 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 4 / 54 (335.4400) | 2 (172.0344) | 17 (163.4056) | — | — |
| 2018-05-04 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-05-05 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-05-06 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |