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The Bad News Bears

1976
24,310 feet · Prominence
682nd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Bad News Bears’ (1976) Wth Bill Simmons and Van Lathan

How this film scores

Draw63

$42m worldwide in 1976 — $246m in today's money.

As released$42mIn 2026 money$246mRank1,360 of 8,589In 197610 of 44

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise87

Critics 87, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 87.

Critics87 → 44Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Template for every scrappy sports comedy.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.3 from 26kWikipedia18k views a monthAge50 years

Scored beside it · 955 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 63 praise 87 legacy 45averages 65, which places it at24,310 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.