This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
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.
Bailey Smokes 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 142 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Bailey Smokes has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Bailey Smokes's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before Bailey Smokes's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bailey Smokes on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Bailey Smokes's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 165.1544 | 165.15 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.1828 | 138.1828 | 138.18 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 166.2628 | 166.26 | top 59% |
| 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.
| 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 100% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-12 | The Art of the 'Cue (BACKYARD ONLY) Shelbyville, TN | 17 / 17 (303.3372) | 16 (165.1544) | 17 (138.1828) | 10 (166.2628) | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | #355 (82 pts) | #348 (87 pts) | #357 (82 pts) | — | — |