The Best Sports Movies, Ranked
All 24 films here, ranked by 31 players. Remember the Titans leads: it wins 76.2% of its matchups (n = 84) and was champion in 8 of 31 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Field of Dreams1989 - Baseball
Miracle2004 - Hockey
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Sports Movies: the community’s best
Win rate across 633 head-to-head picks from 31 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Sports movie | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remember the Titans2000 - Football | 64–20 | 76.2% | 8 | 84 | |
| 2 | Happy Gilmore1996 - Golf | 60–28 | 68.2% | 2 | 88 | |
| 3 | Rocky1976 - Boxing | 45–26 | 63.4% | 2 | 71 | |
| 4 | The Sandlot1993 - Baseball | 40–24 | 62.5% | 2 | 64 | |
| 5 | Talladega Nights2006 - NASCAR | 35–23 | 60.3% | 1 | 58 | |
| 6 | Coach Carter2005 - Basketball | 33–26 | 55.9% | 2 | 59 | |
| 7 | Space Jam1996 - Basketball | 38–30 | 55.9% | 0 | 68 | |
| 8 | The Blind Side2009 - Football | 29–27 | 51.8% | 3 | 56 |
Sports Movies: the community tier list
From 633 head-to-head picks in 31 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Remember the Titans
- Happy Gilmore
- Rocky
- The Sandlot
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Talladega Nights
- Space Jam
- Coach Carter
- Miracle
- The Blind Side
- The Mighty Ducks
- Creed
- Dodgeball
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Major League
- Moneyball
- Friday Night Lights
- Rudy
- Hoosiers
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Field of Dreams
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Jerry Maguire
- A League of Their Own
- Raging Bull
- Rush
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Bull Durham
How the Sports Movies bracket works
This sports movie ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Rocky or Remember the Titans? Hoosiers or The Sandlot? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 24-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 24 contenders. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 24 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Rocky, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers and The Sandlot. Updated
- Rocky1976 - Boxing
- Remember the Titans2000 - Football
- Hoosiers1986 - Basketball
- The Sandlot1993 - Baseball
- Field of Dreams1989 - Baseball
- Moneyball2011 - Baseball
- Space Jam1996 - Basketball
- Raging Bull1980 - Boxing
- Friday Night Lights2004 - Football
- Happy Gilmore1996 - Golf
- The Blind Side2009 - Football
- Creed2015 - Boxing
- A League of Their Own1992 - Baseball
- Rudy1993 - Football
- Dodgeball2004 - Dodgeball
- The Mighty Ducks1992 - Hockey
- Major League1989 - Baseball
- Bend It Like Beckham2002 - Soccer
- Jerry Maguire1996 - Football
- Miracle2004 - Hockey
- Bull Durham1988 - Baseball
- Talladega Nights2006 - NASCAR
- Rush2013 - Formula 1
- Coach Carter2005 - Basketball
Tier list instead?
Load all 24 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 24 so more of the 24 contenders make the field.
- Watch for the contender you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
What is the best sports movie?
According to 31 BracketRanker players, Remember the Titans (2000 - Football). It wins 76.2% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 84) and was champion in 8 of 31 brackets (25.8%).
How many contenders are in the Sports Movies bracket?
The pool holds 24 contenders. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which contenders are included?
Rocky, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers, The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, Moneyball, Space Jam, Raging Bull, Friday Night Lights, Happy Gilmore, The Blind Side and Creed, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Sports Movies bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other contender grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these contenders?
Every completed bracket feeds the Sports Movies community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own sports movies bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.