High-water mark
345.1200
career-best overall
95.9% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 345.1200 at Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) — 95.9% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2024-10-04
Smoker and the Bandit
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1511
peak 1511 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
1
in the data
First seen
2024-10-04
latest 2024-10-04
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
1
of 1 contests
Avg finish
top 26%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 174.86 · weakest Pork Ribs (170.26)
Purse competed for
$4K
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
345.12 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 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.
Smoker and the Bandit has 1 rated contest — 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 97 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.
#2813 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 29%
- Peak
- 1535
No shared contest yet.
7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoker and the Bandit's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2797 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1519
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2018, 6 years before Smoker and the Bandit's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2795 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
Level with Smoker and the Bandit on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2816 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Smoker and the Bandit's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#2799 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 33%
- Peak
- 1517
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Smoker and the Bandit's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2792 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2014, 10 years before Smoker and the Bandit'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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 174.8572 | 174.86 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 42% |
| 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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2024-10-04 → 2024-10-04
Busiest season
2024
1 contest
Cooks most in
MO
1 of 1 contests
Contests visited
1
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
1 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 174.86 · weakest Pork Ribs (170.26)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 1 of 1 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
1 of 1 contests
Backyard average
345.12
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
18
14–4 across every shared overall standing
Purse competed for
$3,750
listed at 1 contests — purses, not winnings
Power rating
1511
peak 1511 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2024
- First tracked contest Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall top-10 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score345.1200 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score345.1200 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Chicken)174.8572 Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 26% | 95.9% | 95.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-04 | Big Creek BBQ Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Pleasant Hill, MO | 5 / 19 (345.1200) | 4 (174.8572) | 8 (170.2628) | — | — |