Lars Ricken

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
150
Potential ability
165
Home reputation
155
Current reputation
155
World reputation
125
International appearances
16
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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
48
Reputation
— 1.5 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness46 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength46 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping25 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)69 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)74 / 1004.0 / 5
Overall71 / 1004.0 / 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
9
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

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 18
Judging player potential 20
Judging staff ability 16
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 16
Youngsters 20
Motivating 12
People management 16
Discipline 8
Mind games 7
Patience 12
Determination 13
Eccentricity 5
Buying players 13
Negotiating 13
Business 14
Resources 1
Interference 6

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

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 18
Defending 10
Technical 16
Tactical 12
Mental 15
Fitness 8
Attacking 18
Defending 10
Technical 16
Tactical 12
Mental 15
Fitness 8

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.

Set pieces 5

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

Career spells

Marked current: 11 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
Borussia Dortmund Player 1990-07-01 — Current
Borussia Dortmund II Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund II Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund II Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund II Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund II Player — — Current
Borussia Dortmund Head of Youth Development 2008-07-11 2024-06-30 Ended
Borussia Dortmund Chairman 2024-05-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2009-06-01
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£41,434

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 907 8

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
German Yes —
English No 5

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2009-06-30

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Borussia Dortmund 100

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
FC Schalke 04 100

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
Sven Mislintat 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1976-07-10
Nationality
Germany
Birth city
Dortmund
Joined current club
2009-06-01

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 1
Ambition 12
Controversy 7
Loyalty 20
Pressure 12
Professionalism 20
Sportsmanship 18
Temperament 12