Simon Ferry

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
60
Potential ability
100
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
70
World reputation
15
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
3

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
37
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Tactical
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Overall46 / 1002.5 / 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
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 8
Judging player potential 6
Tactical knowledge 5
Hardness of training 12
Motivating 11
Determination 13
Versatility 10

7 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Youngsters, Physiotherapy, Injury management, People management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

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 9
Defending 6
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 8
Fitness 8
Attacking 9
Defending 6
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 8
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

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 9 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
Celtic Player 2004-11-19 2010-08-02 Ended
Swindon Town Player 2009-08-27 2010-05-30 Ended
Swindon Town Player 2010-08-02 2013-06-30 Ended
Portsmouth Player 2013-07-01 2014-06-07 Ended
Dundee Player 2014-06-07 2015-09-01 Ended
Peterhead Player 2015-09-14 — Current
Peterhead Player / Coach 2020-01-28 2022-05-04 Ended
Broomhill Player / Manager 2022-06-01 2023-05-31 Ended
East Kilbride Assistant Manager 2023-06-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2023-06-01
Contract start
2025-05-20
Expires
2027-05-31
Weekly wage
£200

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 61063393 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Peterhead 100
Celtic 100
Swindon Town 75

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Rangers 100

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1988-01-11
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Dundee
Joined current club
2023-06-01

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 15
Ambition 15
Controversy 10
Loyalty 12
Pressure 13
Professionalism 11
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 10