Nigel Gibbs

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

125

Potential ability

150

Home reputation

125

Current reputation

125

World reputation

75

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.

Non-playing ability

10 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Interference.

Coaching

2 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Attacking, Technical, Tactical, Mental.

Tactical style

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

3 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Tempo, Width, Depth, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.