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My guess would be that the effect shown by the OP is caused by Blizzard 'reverse engineering' towards the item level starting from the FAP they wish to assign. I'm fairly sure that when the weapons get designed, the FAP is the starting point. But a weapon needs to have a DPS value; there is no 0 or Not Applicable or such.
Meanwhile those posters pointing out that the scaling of FAP + weapon dps in a vacuum is meaningless, got it right. It sits roughly at the level of 'shaman talent lightning mastery reduces cast times twice as much as mage talent improved fireball'. It means nothing without taking the whole class and all its talents, abilities and spells into account.
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