Ian Sampson

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

100

Potential ability

130

Home reputation

60

Current reputation

105

World reputation

25

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.

Non-playing ability

19 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management.

Coaching

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

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.

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