Steve Ralston

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
117
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
117
Current reputation
117
World reputation
25
International appearances
36
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
48
Reputation
Continental 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Attacking
Preferred mentality
Attacking
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Overall52 / 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
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

Tactical knowledge 14
Youngsters 13
People management 18
Determination 11
Eccentricity 1
Versatility 14

6 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, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Buying players, 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 13
Defending 9
Technical 12
Tactical 8
Mental 10
Fitness 7
Attacking 13
Defending 9
Technical 12
Tactical 8
Mental 10
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.

Attacking 18
Width 18

2 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Directness, Tempo, Depth, Pressing, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 9 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
Tampa Bay Mutiny Player — 2002-01-11 Ended
New England Revolution Player 2002-01-11 2010-12-31 Ended
A.C. St. Louis Player — 2010-06-01 Ended
New England Revolution Player — 2010-07-20 Ended
A.C. St. Louis Player / Assistant Manager 2010-02-02 2010-07-22 Ended
Houston Dynamo FC Coach 2010-07-22 2014-12-31 Ended
San Jose Earthquakes Assistant Manager 2015-01-01 2018-11-30 Ended
San Jose Earthquakes Manager 2018-09-17 2018-11-30 Ended
San Jose Earthquakes Assistant Manager 2022-04-18 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
United States Assistant Manager 2019-06-01 — Current

Club contract

Joined
2022-04-18
Contract start
2022-04-18
Expires
2024-12-31
Weekly wage
£3,042

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1910 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked people

PersonRating
Steve Nicol 60
John Franklin Heaps III 50
— 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1974-06-14
Nationality
United States
Birth city
St. Louis (MO)
Joined current club
2022-04-18

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 10
Ambition 14
Controversy 7
Loyalty 13
Pressure 10
Professionalism 13
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 7