Poor average ratings in winning sides

Has anyone else had the problem where you win regularly but your players average ratings are poor? Have they purposely been lowered this year? I won the league and European Cup with Man United but only Evra and Ronaldo got decent ratings around 7.4. all other players were 7.1 or lower.

Wouldn't say that 7.1 is average, 5.0 ~6.5 is average in my opinion. How many games they have played? I guess over a season (30+ games) you can't get 8.00 or more, humans (thus players) are always a little inconsistent.

Exception you have always like C. Ronaldo irl last year, so I think that the game has reflected this correctly.

must be different this year then as on previous games I would always get at least half a dozen players on 7.50 and above after such a successful season.

7.1 is a good average

The ratings in FM09 are totally different to previous versions.

7 and above is very good and you're unlikely to get anyone 7.5 or above over the course of a season unless they've had a stormer.

My main striker has scored 15 in 14 games and has an average rating of 6.7

Oh right that's ok then. Just takes a bit of getting used to I guess!

I think everything below 6.0 is bad, except maybe the poor strikers who have to do a whole lot more than others to get a decent rating.

Isn't the default value (i.e. before kick-off) 6.4 now? It's something around that mark. So taking that as a 'nothing special' bog-standard for a match, 6.7+ will be above average and 7.1 would be a good, solid game, from my experience. My best player has had a blinding season so far and has a 17 game average of 7.38. His highest rating has been 8.5, but that was for one half. His H-T rating was 7.7 in that match.

One thing I have spotted, being in a lower league, is that players that are clearly higher quality tend to get lower ratings despite playing well. I guess this makes sense: he may be a vastly superior player compared to the average player in the division, and *appears* to be playing a good game despite never really getting out of second gear. A bit like having Ronaldo or Fabregas playing in the Championship...or, dare I say it, against the lower Prem teams, where Ronaldo particularly (and last season especially) seemed to stroll through some games.

6 is the new 7; 7 is the new 8. Get used to it!

It's just normal, at least here in Italy when a player plays a GOOD game they give him 7 (it's really hard to see 7s in fantasy football ratings)

Above 7 the player must have a fantastic game...

I would say that, for a long term average, 6.8+ is good, 7.1+ is very good, and 7.5+ is fantastic

I'm happy if my players are over 6.5. Wish I could complain my players were only getting 7.1. Just finished my first season and my highest rated player is clichy at 7.23 over the season.