Norbert Meier

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
115
Potential ability
125
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
0
International appearances
16
Coaching qualification
1

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
55
Reputation
—
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

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
0
Hair colour code
2
Hair length 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

A staff_ability row exists, but none of its 26 values are recorded.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 13 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
Hamburg St.Pauli Player — 1977-07-01 Ended
FC Bergedorf 85 Player 1977-07-01 1981-07-01 Ended
Bremen Player 1981-07-01 1990-01-01 Ended
BMG Player 1990-01-01 1992-06-30 Ended
BMG Manager 1992-07-01 1996-06-30 Ended
BMG II Manager 1996-07-01 1997-11-30 Ended
BMG Manager 1997-12-01 1998-03-31 Ended
BMG Manager 1998-07-01 2001-06-30 Ended
Leverkusen Manager 2001-07-01 2002-12-31 Ended
MSV Duisburg Manager 2003-01-04 2005-12-08 Ended
SG Dynamo Dresden Manager 2006-09-08 2007-09-24 Ended
Düsseldorf Manager 2008-01-01 2013-06-30 Ended
DSC Arminia Bielefeld Manager 2014-02-24 — Current

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
£0

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Bremen 90
Düsseldorf 75

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
MSV Duisburg 100

Liked people

PersonRating
Alexander Ludwig 85
— 80
Tomas Votava 70
Uwe Klein 60

Disliked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1958-09-20
Nationality
Germany
Birth city
Reinbek

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 —
Ambition 14
Controversy 16
Loyalty 12
Pressure 12
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 13