Mark Smith
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
- 70
- Potential ability
- 135
- Home reputation
- 98
- Current reputation
- 70
- World reputation
- 50
- 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.
Appearance
- Ethnicity code
- 0
- Hair colour code
- 9
- Hair length code
- 6
- Skin tone code
- 6
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
9 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, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.
Coaching
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Attacking | 9 |
| Defending | 17 |
| Technical | 16 |
| Tactical | 15 |
| Mental | 15 |
| Fitness | 15 |
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.
8 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style.
Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flamboyancy, 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.
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notts County | Assistant Manager | 1997-01-01 | 1998-08-01 | Ended |
| Barnsley | Coach | 1998-08-12 | 2003-06-30 | Ended |
| Sheffield Wednesday | Manager | 2003-07-01 | 2006-06-29 | Ended |
| Ilkeston Town (EXT) | Assistant Manager | 2006-06-01 | 2007-10-01 | Ended |
| Sheffield United | Manager | 2007-10-01 | 2011-07-01 | Ended |
| Chesterfield | Head of Youth Development | 2013-05-13 | 2018-07-31 | Ended |
| Sheffield United | Head of Player Development | 2018-08-01 | 2022-02-01 | Ended |
| Scunthorpe United | Coach | 2022-02-01 | — | Current |
| Ossett United | Coach | 2024-05-27 | 2025-06-30 | 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
| Language | First language | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | — |
Relations and preferences
Liked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Sheffield Wednesday | 100 |
| Barnsley | 50 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| — | 75 |
| Chris Turner | 65 |
Personal information
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.