Gary MacDonald

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

45

Potential ability

65

Home reputation

45

Current reputation

45

World reputation

5

International appearances

0

Coaching qualification

4

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

Obscure 0.0 / 5 stars

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.

Non-playing ability

2 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Youngsters, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, People management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

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

Goalkeeping coaching

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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