Michael Burry put together a Microsoft Word analyst template for his Scion analysts in early 2006.

True: the template's file metadata, a contemporaneous Scion document, or accounts from former Scion analysts date its creation by Burry for his analysts to January-June 2006. Mostly true: Burry created it for Scion analysts, but the date is slightly off (late 2005 or the second half of 2006). Mixed: it is attributable to Burry or Scion but the date cannot be pinned down within 2005-2007. Mostly false: it was created substantially earlier or later than 2006, or was adapted from another source rather than put together by Burry. False: evidence shows that it was not created by Burry or for Scion analysts, or that it was made recently.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Build-A-Bear (BBW) Part II: The Scion Capital Analyst Tempate and the All Map michaeljburry.substack.com (Michael Burry) · 29 October 2026 Own record

   “So I took a look through the lens of my old Scion Capital Analyst Template from 2006. I put this together in order to get my growing analyst team across two offices and two continents all on the same page.”

2. E2 Build-A-Bear (BBW) Part II: The Scion Capital Analyst Tempate and the All Map michaeljburry.substack.com (Michael Burry) · 29 October 2026 Own record

   “This was something I sat down with Word and off the top of my head started creating. I was done in a couple hours, templated it, and shipped it off to my analysts.”

3. E3 Burry sees value in Build-A-Bear shares as the business faces more tough quarters – Oninvest Oninvest · 30 October 2026

   “In his latest analysis, Burry assessed the company using a template he developed for Scion Capital in 2006.”

4. E4 Michael Burry — from2028 from2028 · 2 November 2026

   “In Part II of his Build-A-Bear (BBW) coverage, Burry runs the stock through the Scion Capital Analyst Template he wrote in 2006 to get his analysts working the same way (he jokes they ignored it).”

5. E5 Michael Burry — from2028 from2028 · 29 October 2026 Own record

   “Build-A-Bear (BBW) Part II: The Scion Capital Analyst Template and the All Map”

6. E6 Cassandra Unchained | Michael Burry | Substack Substack (Cassandra Unchained, Michael Burry) Own record

   “2006 Scion Capital Analyst Template Re-awakened and Fit to this Mall Dinosaur, an OG 2004 IPO, PLUS the All Map Returns”

7. E7 Learning Burry's analyst template by doing it, fifty times Henry Zhang (Substack) · 2 November 2026

   “Michael Burry recently walked through the one-page template his analysts at Scion Capital filled in before a stock could be discussed”

8. E8 Proposed Financial Reform Does Not Tout the Start Up Lawrence University economics blog · 6 April 2010

   “Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, Scion Capital”

The only direct support is Burry's own Substack posts (E1, E2, E7). They say he wrote the Scion Capital Analyst Template in 2006 for his analysts, but they give no month. The third-party items (E3, E4, E8) only repeat what Burry posted and add nothing new to check it against. None of the evidence includes file metadata, a Scion document from the time, or an account from a former Scion analyst that would date the template to early 2006, as the criteria require.