Michael Duff

  • Northern Ireland
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
115
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
55
International appearances
24
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
45
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness43 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength43 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping31 / 1002.0 / 5
GK handling31 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)68 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)60 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall59 / 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

Judging player ability 11
Judging player potential 8
Tactical knowledge 12
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 9
Physiotherapy 1
Motivating 11
People management 8
Discipline 15
Mind games 4
Determination 16
Eccentricity 5
Versatility 9
Negotiating 5

14 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Injury management, Patience, Buying players, 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 10
Defending 14
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 13
Fitness 5
Attacking 10
Defending 14
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 13
Fitness 5

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 13
Directness 12
Tempo 12
Width 13
Depth 6
Pressing 15
Flexibility 9
Flamboyancy 14
Squad rotation 8
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: 1 of 7 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
Cheltenham Town Player 1996-07-01 2004-07-05 Ended
Burnley Player 2004-07-05 — Current
Burnley Manager 2016-06-03 2017-07-03 Ended
Burnley Manager 2017-07-04 2018-09-09 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2018-09-10 2022-06-15 Ended
Barnsley Manager 2022-06-15 2023-06-22 Ended
Swansea City Manager 2023-06-22 2023-12-04 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 —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2016-05-09

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Cheltenham Town 95
Burnley 100

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Blackburn Rovers 60

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Sean Dyche 95
Stephen Cotterill 80
Martin Paterson 75
Jamie Victory 75
— 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1978-01-11
Nationality
Northern Ireland
Birth city
Belfast
Joined current club
2023-12-04

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 14
Ambition 16
Controversy 2
Loyalty 13
Pressure 13
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 15