Ben Knapper

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

126

Potential ability

150

Home reputation

126

Current reputation

126

World reputation

80

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.

Non-playing ability

9 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Youngsters, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Business, Resources, Interference.

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.