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The best way to think about ratings is that they are a scout's evaluation of these players' specific skills. Each of those skills, when employed by the player, contribute to producing a result set of statistics.
Keep in mind that there is uncertainty built in to those ratings (by design!): a scout's evaluation may not be very accurate - but it represents one person's opinion of a player's skills at a point in time. This is all that real life GM's have to go on. That, and previous years' stats.
This is somewhat different from Strat-o-Matic (so I understand) where a statistical result set is what drives in-game outcomes. In OOTP, a large number of factors determine the in-game outcomes. Among them are the TRUE ratings for each of the players' skills.
I hope that clarifies rather than muddies the waters even more...
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