Thread: Dolphins | Stat change gives team positive rushing yards for Week 11

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Dolphins | Stat change gives team positive rushing yards for Week 11
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:30:43 -0800

Judd Zulgad, of the Star Tribune, reports Elias Sports Bureau made a change Monday, Nov. 20, to give the Miami Dolphins four yards rushing during the Week 11 game instead of minus-3 yards rushing. Elias changed a 7-yard rushing loss by QB Joey Harrington to a sack.

That's too bad. But actually I'm getting more interesting in who got a sack recorded out of it?

Who gets credit for the sack???
I don't quite remember the play.

I'm not sure who got the sack.
Judd mentions below that the team gets the sack, whatever that means.

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Change in the stats
Monday, November 20th, 2006
by Judd Zulgad

Elias Sports Bureau, the NFL’s official statistician, made a change today that will give Miami 4-yards rushing in Sunday’s victory over the Vikings instead of the negative-3 yards the Dolphins were originally credited with getting.

What happened? Elias changed a 7-yard rushing loss for Miami quarterback Joey Harrington to a sack, meaning that doesn’t count against the Dolphins’ total.

Miami’s minus-3 yards had been the lowest for any team since 1961, when Philadelphia had minus-12 yards against Washington. But the revised stats make the Vikings’ accomplishment a little less impressive.

The last performance of 4-yards rushing by a team came on Sept. 24, 2000 when Cincinnati registered that total in a 37-0 loss against Baltimore.

The sack of Harrington was credited to the team. It was the Vikings’ only sack of the game

"Acumen" wrote:

I'm not sure who got the sack.
Judd mentions below that the team gets the sack, whatever that means.

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Change in the stats
Monday, November 20th, 2006
by Judd Zulgad

Elias Sports Bureau, the NFL’s official statistician, made a change today that will give Miami 4-yards rushing in Sunday’s victory over the Vikings instead of the negative-3 yards the Dolphins were originally credited with getting.

What happened? Elias changed a 7-yard rushing loss for Miami quarterback Joey Harrington to a sack, meaning that doesn’t count against the Dolphins’ total.

Miami’s minus-3 yards had been the lowest for any team since 1961, when Philadelphia had minus-12 yards against Washington. But the revised stats make the Vikings’ accomplishment a little less impressive.

The last performance of 4-yards rushing by a team came on Sept. 24, 2000 when Cincinnati registered that total in a 37-0 loss against Baltimore.

The sack of Harrington was credited to the team. It was the Vikings’ only sack of the game

Well that means that he ran in to a pile of bodies.

So noone gets the individual stat. It'll show up in the team statisticks though.