High-water mark
486.8572
career-best overall
135.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 486.8572 at Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) — 135.2% of a perfect 360.
- Backyard
- 2022-08-05
Butt Honey BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1467
peak 1467 · rated over 4 contests ⓘ
Contests
4
in the data
First seen
2022-08-05
latest 2023-10-27
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 4 contests
Avg finish
top 154%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Current form
355.67
last 4 Backyard vs avg 355.67 (-0.00)
Walk rate
25%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±75.88
std dev of Backyard overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork
avg 169.14 · weakest Pork Ribs (152.82)
Road miles
30
mi across 4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
43%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1556)
Purse competed for
$14K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
GCs in 2 state-championship entries
Backyard avg
355.67 / 360
4 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 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
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
NORALA BBQ TEAM ahead in 100% of their meetings
NORALA BBQ TEAM has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared 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.
Butt Honey BBQ 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 146 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.
#4755 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head#4796 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Level with Butt Honey BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#4774 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1510
No shared contest yet.
They've been 1510 at their best, 43 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head#4771 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head#4789 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Butt Honey BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#4780 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1467
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Butt Honey BBQ'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 158.2628 | 160.56 | top 142% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 148.5372 | 152.82 | top 152% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 169.1428 | 169.14 | top 24% |
| 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) | 2 | 0 | top 223% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 85% |
Contest-by-contest record (recurring contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023 | 2 | 21 | 0 | top 223% | 2023-10-27 |
The story so far (16 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
1.2 yrs
2022-08-05 → 2023-10-27
Busiest season
2023
2 contests
Contests a season
2
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
AL
4 of 4 contests
Contests visited
3
1 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
4 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Pork
averages 169.14 · weakest Pork Ribs (152.82)
Walk rate
25%
a top-10 call in 1 of 4 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 4 contests
Backyard average
355.67
out of 360 · 4 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
90
19–114 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
30
4 mapped stops
Schedule strength
1556
average field rating faced — tougher than 43% of rated contests
Purse competed for
$14,300
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0
from 2 state-championship entries
Power rating
1467
peak 1467 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First call Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score486.8572 Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best overall score486.8572 Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Career-best single call (Pork)169.1428 Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- Peak power rating (1494) Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY)
- 2023
- Most recent contest Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.2 | Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023 | 2023-10-27 |
| -9.9 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2023-06-09 |
| -6.1 | Railyard BBQ Brawl | 2022-10-28 |
| -5.8 | Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) | 2022-08-05 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 162% | 86% | 85.6% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 145% | 135.2% | 112% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-27 | Railyard BBQ Brawl 2023 🏅 Madison, AL | 33 / 14 (309.6228) | 29 (159.3828) | 33 (150.2400) | — | — |
| 2023-06-09 | Reelin N Smokin Backyard BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY) Huntsville, AL | 23 / 26 (306.8000) | 23 (158.2628) | 25 (148.5372) | — | — |
| 2022-10-28 | Railyard BBQ Brawl 🏅 Madison, AL | 21 / 10 (319.4056) | 20 (160.6056) | 18 (158.8000) | — | — |
| 2022-08-05 | Back to School Bash (BACKYARD ONLY) Madison, AL | 17 / 21 (486.8572) | 15 (164.0000) | 20 (153.7144) | 5 (169.1428) | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Backyard | — | #258 (121 pts) | #287 (111 pts) | — | — |
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #189 (177 pts) | #220 (162 pts) | — | — |