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Preseason for CFL statistics: Redblacks and Riders switch players, Ticats-Als doesn’t count

The CFL preseason's generally seen as a time to work out the kinks before the games really matter, and that seems to be the case for the league's stats and website people as well as the players on the field. That showed up in Saturday afternoon's game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Ottawa Redblacks. The Redblacks were the home team for this despite the game being played in Regina, and that appears to have confused someone on the CFL.ca side. Either that, or Darian Durant was traded to Ottawa for Henry Burris before the game:

As you can see from that snapshot of the live stats page (taken in the third quarter, but it hadn't been fixed as of the fourth), Ottawa's correctly on the right as the home team, but if you look closely at their stats, all the names and numbers in the Redblacks' column belong to Roughriders' players. Similarly, Saskatchewan's stats all belong to the Redblacks. Oh well, at least those stats are comprehensible if you just swap the players to the correct teams, and CFL.ca fixed the problem after the game. That's more than can be said for the stats from the earlier Montreal-Hamilton game, which, three hours after its conclusion, still looked like this (h/t: David Larkins):

Oh well, hopefully these mistakes will be fixed by the times the games count. It's only the preseason, after all, and some blunders are to be expected. These ones are pretty funny, though...