You’re looking over the free agent lists trying to pick up some guys that have a chance of helping you and you start coming across some players who have suddenly started to have good to great stats over the last week or so.

Should you pick them up, or is this just a blip on an otherwise subpar year?

Let’s take a look at a few of them.

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As you’ll recall from my overrated column several weeks back, I said that I thought that one or two players from the Celtics combination of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen was going to take a hit to their stats. I predicted that Ray Allen was the least likely to be taken out of his game (spotting up for three point shots) by being on a team with two other superstars.

It’s still early too early to tell how the entire season is going to shake out, but so far the player that has really taken the hit fantasy-wise is the bench.

Check out the numbers…

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Looking at leaders after the first week can often be misleading, but you can’t really wait too long to pick up players who really are going to do well because they will be gone long before you can be sure it is a trend rather than an aberration. Don’t drop guys who are normally good in place of normally mediocre players who start off the season hot, but some of your late rounders can often be sacrificed for taking a chance on some upstart.

With that said, I’ll present the leaders (and some surprises) in certain categories. I’m going to list them by averages rather than totals because some teams have only played a couple of games, and I’ll throw out in players who have only played 1 game.

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