Derek Watt Adams

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
105
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
105
Current reputation
105
World reputation
65
International appearances
0
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
11
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 12
Judging player potential 12
Judging staff ability 8
Analysing data 8
Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 18
Youngsters 8
Physiotherapy 1
Injury management 1
Motivating 11
People management 6
Discipline 17
Mind games 17
Determination 20
Eccentricity 20
Versatility 10
Buying players 12
Negotiating 12

18 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Patience, 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 9
Defending 11
Technical 5
Tactical 11
Mental 11
Fitness 10
Attacking 9
Defending 11
Technical 5
Tactical 11
Mental 11
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 10
Directness 16
Tempo 12
Width 14
Depth 14
Pressing 10
Flexibility 10
Squad rotation 6
Set pieces 4
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, Flamboyancy.

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 21 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
Aberdeen Player 1991-07-01 1995-01-24 Ended
Burnley Player 1995-01-24 1996-06-30 Ended
Ross County Player 1996-07-31 1998-09-11 Ended
Motherwell Player 1998-09-11 — Current
Ayr United Player 2000-01-01 2000-07-01 Ended
Aberdeen Player 2004-07-01 2005-07-01 Ended
Livingston Player 2005-07-01 2006-07-01 Ended
Ross County Player 2006-07-01 — Current
Ross County Player / Coach 2006-07-12 2007-10-02 Ended
Ross County Coach 2007-10-02 2007-11-21 Ended
Ross County Player / Manager 2007-11-21 2008-05-31 Ended
Ross County Manager 2008-06-01 2010-11-11 Ended
Hibernian Assistant Manager 2010-11-11 2011-05-19 Ended
Ross County Manager 2011-05-19 2014-08-28 Ended
Plymouth Argyle Manager 2015-06-11 2019-04-28 Ended
Morecambe Manager 2019-11-07 2021-06-04 Ended
Bradford City Manager 2021-06-04 2022-02-15 Ended
Morecambe Manager 2022-02-24 2023-11-20 Ended
Ross County Manager 2023-11-20 2024-02-07 Ended
Morecambe Manager 2024-06-03 2025-08-18 Ended
Plymouth Argyle Director of Football 2025-11-11 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-11-11
Contract start
2025-11-11
Expires
2027-06-30
Weekly wage
£3,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 697 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1975-06-25
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Glasgow
Joined current club
2025-11-11

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 15
Ambition 15
Controversy 16
Loyalty 15
Pressure 10
Professionalism 10
Sportsmanship 11
Temperament 7