There is some meaning to the ratings as goals and assists have a very big impact. That much is clear even with small sample size. Also yellow/red cards are negatives.

Outside of those 2 factors I cannot be sure of anything. GK and CM/CDM ratings have always been a joke before.....Now I am not sure if they fixed them in a real way, made them better across the board, or if I just happened to get lucky with new Nordgen fast trainers at both GK and CM.

The ratings for both my GK and CM are better than I am used to having, but so far not outside the possible range in the past for a successful player at either position.

Last seasons GK had very poor ratings until the last 8 matches where he had all 7+ and 1 MoM......So it is just possible the new guy is starting fast. I still dumped old keeper because he got a 6 in 1st match of the season and there was a top value fast trainer available.....

I didn't have a CM last season at all but in the previous version of my team it took into season 4 to find a solid CM. Had many busts with high value. I did eventually find one who was amazing though and had back to back 20+ goal, 10+ assist seasons before I folded the team and started this new version and identity.