High-water mark
334.8000
career-best overall
93.0% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 334.8000 at Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) — 93.0% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- Sep 6, 2024
Codeman's BBQ
Codeman's BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2024. Their best overall finish is 16th of 19 at the Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) (2023). They finished #211 in the 2024 Backyard Series Team of the Year standings.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1483
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 4
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 8, 2023
latest Sep 6, 2024 · 1 year on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 75%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±6.81
spread of their Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 164.97 · weakest Chicken (163.28)
Road miles
138
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 41 mi
Schedule strength
55%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1571)
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
Backyard avg
328.50 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Codeman's BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Codeman's BBQ has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 147 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#4,003 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#4,005 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
Level with Codeman's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#3,984 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1484
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#3,996 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Codeman's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#3,990 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1483
They were already cooking in 2018, 5 years before Codeman's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#4,007 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1508
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Codeman's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 156.5372 | 163.28 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 160.5144 | 164.97 | top 61% |
“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 field size and state
By contest size
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 71% |
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2 | 16 | 0 | top 79% | Sep 6, 2024 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2024
4 contests
Contests a season
2.5
across 2 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
AL
5 of 5 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
5 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Opponents faced
64
finished ahead 30 times, behind 77
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20244 milestones
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score331.9316 Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score334.8000 Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork Ribs)171.4172 Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Most recent contest Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
20232 milestones
- First tracked contest Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1493) Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY)
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.8 | Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 8, 2023 |
| -4.4 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 | May 3, 2024 |
| -4 | Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) | Sep 6, 2024 |
| -1.5 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) | Mar 22, 2024 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 93% | 92.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2024 | Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Cullman, AL | 20 / 27 (334.8000) | 21 (163.3828) | 15 (171.4172) | — | — |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Cullman, AL | — | 11 (162.2516) | — | — | — |
| May 3, 2024 | O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 Oneonta, AL | 20 / 27 (330.2056) | 21 (163.9312) | 13 (166.2744) | — | — |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Singing River Smoke-O-Rama (BACKYARD ONLY) Athens, AL | 25 / 38 (331.9316) | 16 (170.2744) | 29 (161.6572) | — | — |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Bernard Blues and BBQ Cookoff (BACKYARD ONLY) Cullman, AL | 16 / 19 (317.0516) | 17 (156.5372) | 12 (160.5144) | — | — |