Stephen Dobbie

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
110
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
110
World reputation
40
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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
42
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced

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
11
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 11
Judging player potential 12
Tactical knowledge 11
Youngsters 14
Motivating 11
People management 11
Determination 13
Versatility 8

8 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, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Tactical, Fitness. Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Tactical, Fitness.
4 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Tactical, Fitness
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 13
Defending 5
Technical 10
Tactical Not recorded
Mental 10
Fitness Not recorded
Attacking 13
Defending 5
Technical 10
Mental 10

4 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Tactical, Fitness.

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.

Attacking 9
Directness 7
Tempo 14
Width 4
Depth 11
Pressing 8

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 20 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
Rangers Player 1999-07-01 2003-07-01 Ended
Hibernian Player 2003-07-01 2005-05-14 Ended
St Johnstone Player 2005-01-26 2005-05-08 Ended
St Johnstone Player 2005-05-14 2007-01-05 Ended
Dumbarton Player 2006-08-10 2007-01-01 Ended
Queen Of The South Player 2007-01-05 2009-05-22 Ended
Swansea City Player 2009-05-22 2012-08-31 Ended
Blackpool Player 2010-02-01 2012-06-30 Ended
Blackpool Player 2012-03-23 2014-01-03 Ended
Brighton & Hove Albion Player 2012-08-31 2013-07-01 Ended
Crystal Palace Player 2013-01-31 2013-04-30 Ended
Crystal Palace Player 2013-07-01 2015-06-30 Ended
Blackpool Player 2013-09-13 2014-05-03 Ended
Fleetwood Town Player 2014-08-07 2015-05-04 Ended
Bolton Wanderers Player 2015-08-05 2016-06-30 Ended
Queen Of The South Player 2016-08-03 2021-05-17 Ended
AFC Fylde Player 2021-05-17 2022-05-20 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2022-04-08 2022-05-23 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2022-07-27 2024-06-30 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2024-06-30 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2022-07-27
Contract start
2024-09-03
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£1,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 613 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Queen Of The South 100
Rangers 100
Blackpool 100
St Johnstone 63

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Neil Janczyk 70
Ian Scott Holloway 50

Disliked people

PersonRating
Owen Coyle 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1982-12-05
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Glasgow
Joined current club
2022-07-27

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 10
Ambition 14
Controversy 3
Loyalty 15
Pressure 12
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 8