Liam O'Brien

  • Republic of Ireland
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
90
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
75
Current reputation
90
World reputation
15
International appearances
16
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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
60
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Fitness
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness69 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength69 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (technical)48 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (technical)47 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall50 / 1003.0 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
17
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 14
Tactical knowledge 12
Hardness of training 13
Youngsters 9
Physiotherapy 1
Motivating 12
People management 8
Discipline 9
Mind games 7
Patience 10
Determination 11
Buying players 13
Business 1
Resources 1
Interference 3

16 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Injury management, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating.

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 14
Defending 9
Technical 9
Tactical 10
Mental 8
Fitness 16
Attacking 14
Defending 9
Technical 9
Tactical 10
Mental 8
Fitness 16

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.

Attacking 14
Directness 12
Tempo 13
Width 11
Depth 8
Pressing 13
Flexibility 9
Squad rotation 13

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: 4 of 12 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
Bohemian F.C. Player 1982-01-01 1983-01-01 Ended
Shamrock Rovers Player 1983-01-01 — Current
Manchester United Player 1987-01-02 — Current
Newcastle United Player 1989-01-02 — Current
Tranmere Rovers Player 1994-01-02 — Current
Cork City Player 1999-01-01 2000-01-01 Ended
Bohemian F.C. Player 2000-01-01 2002-06-30 Ended
St. Patrick's Athletic Assistant Manager 2006-12-30 2007-12-30 Ended
Bohemian F.C. Assistant Manager 2008-01-31 2011-11-29 Ended
Hibernian Coach 2011-11-29 2013-11-01 Ended
Sligo Rovers Assistant Manager 2015-04-08 2015-06-26 Ended
Bray Wanderers FC Assistant Manager 2016-04-28 2017-10-07 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

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2002-06-30

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-09-05
Birth city
Dublin
Joined current club
2017-10-07

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 13
Ambition 14
Controversy 6
Loyalty 12
Pressure 12
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 10