The six (seven?) different types of sports movies

One of the things I want to write about is sports movie music, for which we owe a great deal of respect to Jerry Goldsmith.  But as I was thinking about that, I thought about the plots and stories in sports movies, and came up with several categories.  Below are the results of this line of thinking.

 1. Bio-pic:  following the life of a famous athlete.  Ali, Raging Bull, Cinderella Man, The Express, Seabiscuit, Cobb (book), Coach Carter, Pride of the Yankees
 
2. Coming-of-age story: Athlete, (frequently self-absorbed) has to mature to a) win, b)  become a better person, and c) learn that sports isn't everything.   So many:  Vision Quest, Youngblood, All the Right Moves, Varsity Blues, Days of  Thunder, Bend it Like Beckham ...
 
3. Underdog:  athlete or team that is too [small, underfunded, underskilled, disadvantaged] gets [unlikely break, new coach, unexpected inspiration, great player] and  [ wins championship, comes close to winning, has moment-of-a-lifetime,  learns valuable life lessons]. So many:  The Rookie, The Mighty Ducks, The Replacements, Hoosiers, The Color of Money, The Longest Yard, Breaking Away, Rocky, The Bad News Bears, The Karate Kid, Major League, Million Dollar Baby...

4. Literary adaptation. (Semi-Tough, The Natural, For Love of the Game, North Dallas Forty, Moneyball, Brian's Song, Friday Night Lights, Any Given Sunday, Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Bang the Drum Slowly)

5. Absurd comedy, the "Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Caddyshack" division.  (Caddyshack, Blades of Glory, The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Kingpin, BASEketball, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Talladega Nights, Slapshot)

6. Event movie:  About a real event or season.  (The Greatest Game Ever Played, Glory Road, Remember the Titans, Invictus, Miracle, We Are Marshall, Rudy, Eight Men Out,  A League of Their Own, Chariots of Fire)

Hybrids:  The Rookie - underdog and event movie
Rudy - underdog and event movie
Miracle - the ultimate underdog and event movie
Breaking Away - underdog and coming-of-age
The Bad News Bears - underdog and absurd comedy
Cobb - biopic and literary adaptation
Seabiscuit - biopic and literary adaptation
Semi-Tough - literary adaptation and absurd comedy
Glory Road - event movie based on a book
Vision Quest - literary adaptation and coming-of-age plot


There are a few movies that are tough calls:  could I call these sports rom-coms?
Bull Durham
Heaven Can Wait
Tin Cup
White Men Can't Jump
Jerry Maguire
Field of Dreams