How the Sports Movies bracket works
Rank sports movies without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Rocky or Remember the Titans? Hoosiers or The Sandlot? — and after 23 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 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 contenders in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Rocky, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers and The Sandlot.
Rocky
1976 - Boxing
Remember the Titans
2000 - Football
Hoosiers
1986 - Basketball
The Sandlot
1993 - Baseball
Field of Dreams
1989 - Baseball
Moneyball
2011 - Baseball
Space Jam
1996 - Basketball
Raging Bull
1980 - Boxing
Friday Night Lights
2004 - Football
Happy Gilmore
1996 - Golf
The Blind Side
2009 - Football
Creed
2015 - Boxing
A League of Their Own
1992 - Baseball
Rudy
1993 - Football
Dodgeball
2004 - Dodgeball
The Mighty Ducks
1992 - Hockey
Major League
1989 - Baseball
Bend It Like Beckham
2002 - Soccer
Jerry Maguire
1996 - Football
Miracle
2004 - Hockey
Bull Durham
1988 - Baseball
Talladega Nights
2006 - NASCAR
Rush
2013 - Formula 1
Coach Carter
2005 - Basketball
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 3 completed Sports Movies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Remember the Titans
6W - 1L · won 1 bracket
86%
win rate
- 2
Miracle
6W - 1L · won 1 bracket
86%
win rate
- 3
Bend It Like Beckham
4W - 1L · won 1 bracket
80%
win rate
- 4
The Blind Side
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 5
The Sandlot
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 6
Happy Gilmore
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 7
Jerry Maguire
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 8
Major League
3W - 3L
50%
win rate
- 9
Coach Carter
3W - 3L
50%
win rate
- 10
Rocky
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- 2The default run puts all 24 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the contender you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Sports Movies bracket FAQ
How many contenders are in the Sports Movies bracket?
The pool holds 24 contenders. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. 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 rank sports movies take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
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 23 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.