Mark Dickson

  • 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
40
Potential ability
80
Home reputation
40
Current reputation
40
World reputation
10
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
41
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

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
0
Hair length code
4
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

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

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Northampton Town Player 1999-07-01 2000-01-01 Ended
Newry City Player 2000-01-01 2002-01-02 Ended
Larne Player 2002-01-02 2006-05-23 Ended
Linfield Player 2006-05-23 2008-05-20 Ended
Crusaders Player 2008-05-20 2010-05-31 Ended
Donegal Celtic Player 2010-08-04 2011-05-31 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 2011-06-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Linfield 85

Personal information

Date of birth
1981-12-12
Nationality
Northern Ireland
Birth city
Belfast
Joined current club
2011-05-31

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 7
Controversy 5
Loyalty 16
Pressure 8
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 18
Temperament 17