Mark Bower

  • 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
56
Potential ability
95
Home reputation
56
Current reputation
56
World reputation
25
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

Age at game start
43
Reputation
Obscure 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness41 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength41 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping23 / 1001.5 / 5
GK handling23 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)51 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)44 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (technical)42 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)40 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)39 / 1002.0 / 5
Overall41 / 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 6
Judging player potential 6
Tactical knowledge 8
Hardness of training 7
Youngsters 12
Motivating 10
People management 8
Discipline 6
Mind games 4
Determination 15
Buying players 7

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 6
Defending 12
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 8
Fitness 7
Attacking 6
Defending 12
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 8
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 12
Directness 8
Tempo 12
Width 10
Depth 7
Pressing 9
Flexibility 8
Flamboyancy 8
Squad rotation 11
Dirtiness allowance 12

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

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 12 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
Bradford City Player 1997-07-01 2009-06-30 Ended
York City Player 2000-02-16 2001-05-30 Ended
York City Player 2000-11-30 — Current
Luton Town Player 2009-01-26 2009-04-17 Ended
Darlington (EXT) Player 2009-07-01 2010-06-30 Ended
FC Halifax Town Player 2010-07-15 2011-05-29 Ended
Guiseley Player 2011-05-29 — Current
Guiseley Player / Coach 2011-05-29 2013-09-16 Ended
Guiseley Player / Manager 2013-09-11 2014-06-30 Ended
Guiseley Manager 2014-07-01 2016-08-21 Ended
Bradford (Park Avenue) Manager 2016-09-22 2019-05-21 Ended
Bradford (Park Avenue) Manager 2019-09-30 2023-11-06 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

ClubRating
Bradford City 100

Liked people

PersonRating
Daniel Kevin Boshell 90

Personal information

Date of birth
1980-01-23
Nationality
England
Birth city
Bradford
Joined current club
2023-11-06

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 1
Loyalty 17
Pressure 12
Professionalism 13
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 14