Gary Simpson

  • England
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
70
Potential ability
85
Home reputation
85
Current reputation
85
World reputation
35
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

The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
1

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: 8 of 22 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
Stoke City Player — 1980-06-30 Ended
Boston United Player 1980-07-01 1985-06-30 Ended
Weymouth Player — — Current
Stafford Rangers Player 1985-07-01 — Current
Stafford Rangers Player — — Current
Boston United Player — — Current
Altrincham Player — — Current
Gainsborough Trinity Player — — Current
Arnold Town Player — — Current
Gainsborough Trinity Player / Manager 1991-07-01 1993-10-09 Ended
Hyde United Player — — Current
Ilkeston Assistant Manager 1995-07-01 2000-06-30 Ended
Northwich Victoria Assistant Manager 2000-07-01 2001-06-30 Ended
Lincoln City Assistant Manager 2002-07-01 2006-01-06 Ended
Peterborough United Coach 2006-07-01 2006-11-06 Ended
Bury Chief Scout 2007-07-03 2007-10-20 Ended
Macclesfield Town Assistant Manager 2008-06-06 2010-03-03 Ended
Macclesfield Town Manager 2010-03-03 2010-04-13 Ended
Macclesfield Town Manager 2010-04-13 2012-03-18 Ended
Lincoln City Manager 2013-02-27 2014-12-04 Ended
Barrow Assistant Manager 2016-02-09 2017-06-30 Ended
Bury Chief Scout 2019-01-14 2019-09-01 Ended

National-team spells

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

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100

Disliked people

PersonRating
Christopher Casper 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1961-04-11
Nationality
England
Birth city
Sheffield
Joined current club
2019-09-01

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 5
Controversy 11
Loyalty 20
Pressure 13
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 10