Alexander Clark

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
100
Potential ability
150
Home reputation
85
Current reputation
80
World reputation
10
International appearances
0
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
53
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Attacking
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness53 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength53 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping35 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)50 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall50 / 1003.0 / 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
3
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 11
Judging player potential 14
Tactical knowledge 13
Coaching 13
Hardness of training 11
Youngsters 13
Motivating 13
People management 12
Discipline 10
Mind games 1
Determination 17
Buying players 8

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

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 13
Defending 7
Technical 9
Tactical 10
Mental 11
Fitness 9
Attacking 13
Defending 7
Technical 9
Tactical 10
Mental 11
Fitness 9

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 3

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 13
Directness 13
Tempo 10
Width 10
Depth 7
Pressing 12
Sitting back 7
Marking 12
Offside 13
Use of playmaker 9
Use of subs 8
Free roles 7
Flexibility 8
Flamboyancy 5
Squad rotation 9

15 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Airdrieonians Player 1974-06-11 1982-06-04 Ended
West Ham United Player 1982-06-04 1983-03-17 Ended
Rangers Player 1983-03-17 1984-10-27 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Player 1984-10-27 1989-11-11 Ended
Partick Thistle Player 1989-11-11 1990-01-01 Ended
Dunfermline Athletic Player 1990-03-29 1990-04-24 Ended
Partick Thistle Player / Manager 1989-11-11 1990-01-01 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Coach 1990-04-24 1993-05-10 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Manager 1993-05-10 1994-06-20 Ended
Hamilton Academical Manager 1996-07-01 1998-09-07 Ended
St. Johnstone Manager 1998-09-07 2001-09-25 Ended
Dunfermline Athletic Coach 2002-07-01 2004-05-28 Ended
Berwick Rangers Manager 2004-10-13 2005-05-12 Ended
Aberdeen Coach 2005-05-12 2009-05-24 Ended
Kilmarnock Coach 2010-01-20 2010-05-31 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

Personal information

Date of birth
1956-10-28
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
—

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 12
Ambition 14
Controversy —
Loyalty 15
Pressure 13
Professionalism 12
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 16