Gary Smith

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
150
Home reputation
80
Current reputation
120
World reputation
65
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
2

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
54
Reputation
Continental 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
Quickness47 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength47 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall55 / 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
9
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
1

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 7
Judging player potential 10
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 8
Youngsters 12
Motivating 15
People management 17
Discipline 11
Mind games 3
Determination 9
Buying players 8

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 11
Defending 13
Technical 10
Tactical 10
Mental 11
Fitness 8
Attacking 11
Defending 13
Technical 10
Tactical 10
Mental 11
Fitness 8

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 10
Directness 10
Tempo 7
Width 8
Depth 14
Pressing 9
Flexibility 6
Flamboyancy 15
Squad rotation 15
Set pieces 12
Dirtiness allowance 8

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

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 17 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
Fulham Player 1985-07-01 1987-07-01 Ended
Colchester United Player 1987-07-01 1988-07-01 Ended
Enfield Town Player 1988-07-01 1990-01-01 Ended
Wycombe Wanderers Player 1990-01-01 — Current
Welling United Player 1992-07-01 1993-07-01 Ended
Barnet Player 1993-07-01 1995-07-01 Ended
Aylesbury United Player 1995-07-01 — Current
Wimbledon Coach 2003-01-01 2004-01-01 Ended
Wycombe Wanderers Assistant Manager 2004-01-01 2005-08-01 Ended
Watford Manager 2005-08-01 2006-07-30 Ended
Arsenal Scout 2007-01-01 2007-12-31 Ended
Colorado Rapids Assistant Manager 2008-02-01 2008-11-11 Ended
Colorado Rapids Manager 2008-11-11 2012-01-25 Ended
Stevenage Manager 2012-01-25 2013-03-20 Ended
Whitehawk Assistant Manager 2014-08-01 2014-12-23 Ended
Atlanta Silverbacks Manager 2014-12-23 2016-01-11 Ended
Nashville SC Manager 2017-12-12 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2017-12-12
Contract start
2023-05-23
Expires
2025-12-31
Weekly wage
£5,202

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 20046403 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Arsenal 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1968-12-03
Nationality
England
Birth city
Harlow
Joined current club
2017-12-12

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 7
Controversy 4
Loyalty 13
Pressure 8
Professionalism 12
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 14