David Weir

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
120
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
110
World reputation
45
International appearances
65
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
51
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
Passing
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness46 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength46 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping28 / 1001.5 / 5
GK handling28 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)44 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)40 / 1002.5 / 5
Overall49 / 1002.5 / 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
0
Hair colour code
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
4

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 14
Judging player potential 14
Hardness of training 14
Youngsters 15
Motivating 7
People management 14
Discipline 14
Determination 17
Versatility 16
Buying players 12

10 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, 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 5
Defending 16
Technical 5
Tactical 9
Mental 14
Fitness 7
Attacking 5
Defending 16
Technical 5
Tactical 9
Mental 14
Fitness 7

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Directness 5
Tempo 11
Width 12
Pressing 12
Flexibility 4
Flamboyancy 11
Squad rotation 16
Dirtiness allowance 4

8 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Attacking, Depth, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 14 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
Falkirk Player 1992-08-01 1996-07-29 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Player 1996-07-29 1999-02-17 Ended
Everton Player 1999-02-17 2007-01-16 Ended
Rangers Player 2007-01-16 2011-01-20 Ended
Everton Player 2011-01-21 — Current
Rangers Player / Coach 2011-07-16 2012-01-20 Ended
Everton Player / Coach 2012-02-20 2012-06-30 Ended
Everton Coach 2012-07-01 2013-06-09 Ended
Sheffield United Manager 2013-06-10 2013-10-12 Ended
Brentford Assistant Manager 2013-12-16 2015-05-31 Ended
Rangers Assistant Manager 2015-06-14 2017-02-11 Ended
Aston Villa Scout 2017-03-06 2017-03-14 Ended
Nottingham Forest Assistant Manager 2017-03-14 2017-12-31 Ended
Brighton and Hove Albion Head of Player Development 2018-08-09 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2018-08-09
Contract start
2018-08-09
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£1,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 618 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2012-06-30

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Falkirk 90
Rangers 100
Everton 90

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
— 90

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation England 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1970-05-10
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Falkirk
Joined current club
2018-08-09

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 15
Ambition 12
Controversy 3
Loyalty 18
Pressure 16
Professionalism 20
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 9