Jim Thomson

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
60
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
40
Current reputation
40
World reputation
40
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
39
Reputation
— 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness25 / 1001.5 / 5
Strength25 / 1001.5 / 5
GK shot stopping25 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)71 / 1004.0 / 5
Defending (technical)72 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)37 / 1002.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)38 / 1002.0 / 5
Overall54 / 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 12
Judging player potential 10
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 19
Youngsters 10
Motivating 5
People management 12
Discipline 18
Mind games 5
Determination 11
Buying players 9

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, 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 2
Defending 19
Technical 12
Tactical 11
Mental 10
Fitness 1
Attacking 2
Defending 19
Technical 12
Tactical 11
Mental 10
Fitness 1

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

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 8
Directness 15
Tempo 10
Width 10
Depth 11
Pressing 14
Sitting back 11
Marking 14
Offside 19
Use of playmaker 1
Use of subs 12
Free roles 2
Flexibility 14
Flamboyancy 10
Squad rotation 2
Dirtiness allowance 12

16 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 6 of 6 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
Clyde Player — — Current
Stenhousemuir Player — — Current
Queen Of The South Player — — Current
Arbroath Player — — Current
Queen Of The South Player — — Current
Queen Of The South Sports Scientist 2001-05-23 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
—
Contract start
2007-07-01
Expires
2011-06-30
Weekly wage
£299

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1383 —

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Queen Of The South 100
Aberdeen 100

Liked people

PersonRating
Andrew Robert Aitken 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1971-05-15
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 11
Ambition 12
Controversy 5
Loyalty 10
Pressure 10
Professionalism 11
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 12