But at the start of each season that is one of the things that I enjoy doing. I do a proper scouting of each team including their rankings, history, estimated wealth, projected starting 5, strategies, roster depth, are they training any key players out of position and where I think they will end up. This is fun!
Where this would be perhaps a bit useful is when a new player asks you have a look at their chances and you don't want to put in much effort. However overall I don't think ratings are much use. I was rated around 4-5,000 in season 12 and my team was weak and in season 13 I was around 6-8,000 and stronger in 4/5 positions and much deeper. Just had a bad cup run out round one, one match, the cup has way too much efect on rankings.