John Robertson

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
85
Potential ability
110
Home reputation
80
Current reputation
80
World reputation
40
International appearances
16
Coaching qualification
—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
44
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness62 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength62 / 1003.5 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
1
Hair colour code
2
Skin tone code
2

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 12
Judging player potential 13
Tactical knowledge 6
Coaching 15
Youngsters 16
Motivating 14
People management 17
Discipline 9
Determination 17
Buying players 13

10 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

No coaching chart: 3 of 6 values are recorded. A chart needs at least 3 values and 60% of the group.

3 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Technical, Tactical, Mental
Coaching — every value, including the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 14
Defending 7
Technical Not recorded
Tactical Not recorded
Mental Not recorded
Fitness 12
Attacking 14
Defending 7
Fitness 12

3 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Technical, Tactical, Mental.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 13
Directness 17
Depth 12
Pressing 18
Sitting back 14
Marking 6
Offside 7
Use of playmaker 13
Use of subs 8

9 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Tempo, Width, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 5 of 10 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Heart Of Midlothian Player — — Current
Newcastle United Player — — Current
Heart Of Midlothian Player — — Current
Dundee Player — — Current
Livingston Player — — Current
Inverness Caledonian Manager 2002-12-26 2004-11-03 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Manager 2004-11-03 2005-05-09 Ended
Ross County Manager 2005-06-21 2005-10-24 Ended
Livingston Manager 2006-02-15 2007-04-15 Ended
Derry City Manager 2007-07-02 2007-12-11 Ended

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Team
—
Joined
—
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
—

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Heart Of Midlothian 90
Livingston 60

Liked people

PersonRating
Craig Levein 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-10-02
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Edinburgh

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 8
Ambition 20
Controversy 9
Loyalty 20
Pressure 17
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 18