Staff attributes
Please remember that any numeric rating is indicating the rating of the
attribute on world-wide basis and not relative to the league or competition the
staff is playing in. This means that in an attribute that accepts values from 0
to 20, 0 is random, 1 is the worst possible standard anywhere in the world at
any time, so 20 is the best possible standard anywhere in the world at any time.
If this is not taken into consideration when changing the data, this will in
turn make a newly created game very unrealistic.
Renaming staff: You should use this edit (Staff Edit) to change the names of any
staff. If the name set as does not exist, it will be automatically created and
added to the appropriate name list.
Page 1: Personal
Attribute: First name, second name, common name
Description: Names. These are actually references to the first names, second
names and common names name tables.
The common name is the staff’s nickname. If this is set, generally this name
will be used throughout the game instead of his first and second names, though
you will find these in the staff’s Transfer tab on the staff screen in the game.
Type: Text string.
Length: Max. 51 characters.
Attribute: Date of birth
Description: Date format DD.MM.YYYY (DD – day of month, MM – month of year, YYYY
- year). If this field is set the game will use it as the birthday of this
staff. If it isn’t set, it will use the Year of birth field if that is set, or
create a random date of birth if none of them are set.
Type: Date (text string)
Value range: 01.01.1915 – 20.07.1990
Attribute: Year of birth
Description: This attribute is only used if Date of birth is empty. The game
will then use this (if set, i.e. > 0) and create a random date of birth in that
year when initializing a new game.
Type: Number.
Value range: From 0 (not set) to 1990.
Attribute: Classification
Description: The classification of a staff, this determines if the staff is a
player, a non-player (e.g. manager, coach, etc), or both.
Type: Text.
Values: One of the following: “Not set”, “Player”, “Non-player”, “Non-player &
Player”.
Attribute: Nation
Description: The nationality of the staff.
Type: Text.
Values: Name of the nation .
Attribute: Second nation
Description: Second nationality of the staff. The staff does not need a work
permit in any of these countries, and if any of them are European Union members
(former EC), he does not need a work permit anywhere within the EU.
Type: Text.
Values: Name of the nation .
Attribute: Int. apps (International appearances)
Description: How many caps the staff has got for his (first) nation.
Type: Number.
Range: 0-255
Attribute: Int. goals (International goals)
Description: How many goals the staff has scored for his country.
Type: Number
Range: 0-255
Page 2: Contract
A staff can, on occasion, have both a club and nation contract. Mark Hughes is
such an example. This is quite rare, however. Players cannot be given nation
contracts.
Club contract:
Attribute: Contracted
Description: What club the staff is contracted to.
Type: Text
Values: Name of club picked from dropdown list.( from clubs table)
Attribute: Job as
Description: What type of job the staff has got as his club.
Type: Text
Values: One of the following: Not set, Chairman, Managing director, General
manager, Director of football, Manager, Assistant manager, Coach, Scout, Physio,
Player, Player/Manager, Player/Assistant manager or Player/Coach.
Attribute: Date joined
Description: The date the staff joined this club
Type: Date
Range: 01.01.1915 – 20.07.2000
Attribute: Contract expires
Description: When the contract expires. Please note that contract details for
managers are not used in the game, so for managers this field is for guidance
purposes only.( This is in CM maybe we could change it in our game! )
Type: Date
Range: 20.07.2000 – 20.07.2020
Attribute: Playing squad
Description: In what squad the staff plays.
Type: Text
Values: One of the following: Not set, Senior squad or Reserve squad.
Attribute: Estimated wage
Description: The estimated wage this player receives from his club in british
pounds (£). This value may be altered slightly when the game initializes a new
game.
Type: Number
Range/Length: 0 – 999 999 999
Attribute: Estimated value
Description: The approximate value of this staff. This value will be changed
slightly upon game initialization by the in-game calculations. If not set (0),
the game will calculate this automatically.
Type: Number
Range/Length: 0 – 999 999 999
Nation contract
Attribute: Contracted
Description: What nation the staff is contracted to. Note: A player cannot be
contracted to both a club and a nation at the same time.
Type: Text
Values: Name of the nation picked from the dropdown list.
Attribute: Job as
Description: Type of job for the staff for his nation.
Type: Text
Values: One of the following: Not set, Chairman, Managing director, General
manager, Director of football, Manager, Assistant manager, Coach, Scout, Physio,
Player, Player/Manager, Player/Assistant manager or Player/Coach.
Attribute: Date joined
Description: The date the staff joined this nation.
Type: Date
Range: 01.01.1915 – 20.07.2000
Attribute: Contract expires
Description: When the contract expires.
Type: Date
Range: 20.07.2000 – 20.07.2020
Page 3: Mental characteristics
All attributes are numbers in the range 0-20, 0 = random, 20 = best.
Attribute: Adaptability
Description: How well he adapts to living in a country which isn’t his own.
Attribute: Ambition
Description: How much ambition he has to win trophies for the club.
Attribute: Determination
Description: His determination to reach his goals.
Attribute: Loyalty
Description: His loyalty to his employer.
Attribute: Pressure
Description: His ability to handle pressure.
Attribute: Professionalism
Description: How professional his conduct is.
Attribute: Sportsmanship
Description: How much of a sportsman he is.
Attribute: Temperament
Description: How well he keeps his temperament.
Page 4: Preferences
Attribute: Favorite clubs
Attribute: Disliked clubs
Description: Favorite and disliked clubs. Favorite clubs are the clubs this
staff would very much want to join given the chance, disliked clubs the
opposite.
Type: Text.
Values: Name of club chosen from dropdown list.
Attribute: Favorite staff
Attribute: Disliked staff
Description: Favorite and disliked staff. A staff would, given the chance, like
to join one of his favorite staff. The opposite for disliked staff.
Type: Text.
Values: Name of staff chosen from dropdown list.
Page 5: Coach (non-player staff only)
Non-playing ability
Attribute: Current ability
Description: Non-playing staff current overall ability.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: Potential ability
Description: How good he can become in the future – this value must never be
below his current ability.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best, -1 = very promising (auto-generated
between about 120 to 200, biased towards the lower end), -2 = very promising
(auto-generated between about 120 to 200, biased towards the higher end).
Attribute: Home reputation
Description: Non-playing staff home reputation – his reputation in his home
country. Reflects his achievements in his home nation.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: Current reputation
Description: Non-playing staff current overall reputation.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: World reputation
Description: How good he is reputed to be by people on a worldwide basis.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Non-playing attributes
All attributes are numbers in the range 0-20, where 0 generates a random value
and 20 is the best value.
Attribute: Attacking
Description: Extent to which he likes to use an attacking style of football.
Attribute: Business
Description: How good he is at running the business side of the club. Note:
Applies to chairmen only.
Attribute: Coaching
Description: How good he is at coaching outfield players.
Attribute: Coaching goalie (Coaching goalkeepers)
Description: How good he is at coaching goalkeepers.
Attribute: Coaching technique
Description: Extent to which he is a technical coach rather than a fitness
coach.
Attribute: Directness
Description: Extent to which he prefers a direct style of play.
Attribute: Discipline
Description: How severely he punishes players who misbehave.
Attribute: Free roles
Description: Extent to which he allows players to play in a free role
Attribute: Interference
Description: Extent to which he interferes in the manager’s tasks. Note: Applies
to chairmen only.
Attribute: Judging ability
Description: How well he judges how good staff are.
Attribute: Judging potential
Description: How well he judges how good staff could become.
Attribute: Man handling
Description: His ability to psychologically handle those below him.
Attribute: Marking
Description: Extent to which he likes to employ a man-marking system.
Attribute: Motivating
Description: His ability to motivate players.
Attribute: Offside
Description: Extent to which he likes to use the offside trap.
Attribute: Patience
Description: How much patience he has in managers to succeed. Note: Applies to
chairmen only.
Attribute: Physiotherapy
Description: How good he is at physiotherapy.
Attribute: Pressing
Description: Extent to which he likes to play a pressing game.
Attribute: Resources
Description: Extent of financial resources he is prepared to put into the club.
Note: Applies to chairmen only.
Attribute: Tactics
Description: His tactical knowledge.
Attribute: Youngsters
Description: How well he works with young players.
Page 6: Types
Except for the Preferred formation, these attributes are players still playing
whose characteristics this staff likes. All values are text, the names of the
staff chosen from the dropdown list.
Attribute: Preferred formation
Description: What kind of formation this staff prefers to use.
Attributes: Goalkeeper, Sweeper, Defender, Wing back, Defensive midfielder,
Midfielder, Attacking midfielder and Attacker
Description: The respective player models whose characteristics he likes.
Page 7: Position (Players only)
Playing ability
Attribute: Current ability
Description: Current overall ability. Please note that the best players in the
world generally should have a value between 180-195. Only Maradona and Pele
would have 200.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: Potential ability
Description: How good he can become in the future – this value must never be
below his current ability.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best. There are two special values for younger
players: -1 = very promising (auto-generated between about 120 to 200, biased
towards the lower end), -2 = very promising (auto-generated between about 120 to
200, biased towards the higher end, generally meaning 160-200).
Attribute: Home reputation
Description: His reputation in his home country. Reflects what people thinks of
his achievements in his home nation. This value is not always as high as his
current ability, especially if he is inconsistent and unproven. This value will
also be the same as his current reputation if he is at a club in his home
country.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: Current reputation
Description: Overall current reputation. This number is not always as high as
his current ability, especially if he is inconsistent and unproven.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Attribute: World reputation
Description: How good he is reputed to be by people on a worldwide basis. It
will not always be as high as his current ability, especially if he is
inconsistent and unproven. For most players, world reputation will be below 100,
only well known players and established internationals will be over 100.
Type: Number
Range: 0-200, 0 = random, 200 = best.
Sides
The following attributes are numbers in the range between 0 (random) and 20
(best).
Attribute: Right side
Description: His ability to play on the right side of the pitch.
Attribute: Left side
Description: His ability to play on the left side of the pitch.
Attribute: Central
Description: His ability to play in the centre of the pitch.
Positions
The following attributes are this player’s preferred playing positions. You
shouldn’t give too many 20s here, as true versatile players are quite rare. If
someone has a secondary position, he should be given a 15 instead of a 20. The
values are numbers in the range from 0 (random) to 20 (best).
Attributes: Goalkeeper, Sweeper, Defender, Defensive midfielder, Midfielder,
Attacking midfielder
, Attacker and Wing back.
Description: The respective positions and his happiness and ability to play in
those positions.
Note: These settings will affect the player’s attributes (see Page 8: Player).
Setting a staff to both a goalkeeper and an outfield player, for example, the
game will assume he’s a goalkeeper and make calculations so that his outfield
attributes will be heavily modified compared to your data if the game thinks
that is necessary.
Attribute: Free role
Description: How much he prefers to play in a free role where he can switch
between left, right and centre.
Page 8: Player (Players only)
The following attributes are this player’s characteristics. They are all numbers
in the range 0 (random) to 20 (best).
Please note that the game will make certain calculations on the data in attempt
to make it as realistic as possible, so your input values may change in the game
compared to your data input in the editor. A staffs ability and reputation
should reflect its other attributes, or these attributes may differ quite a bit
from the data you put in.
Attribute: Acceleration
Description: How quickly he can reach full speed from a stand still.
Attribute: Aggression
Description: How aggressive he is (without necessarily being dirty – see
dirtiness).
Attribute: Agility
Description: How agile he is.
Attribute: Anticipation
Description: How well he anticipates what is about to happen on the pitch.
Attribute: Balance
Description: How well he keeps balance when challenged.
Attribute: Bravery
Description: How brave the player is.
Attribute: Consistency
Description: How consistently he performs from match to match. If you set this
to 5, he will perform to his Current ability only 25% of the time. 20 means 100%
of the time.
Attribute: Corners
Description: How good he is at taking corners.
Attribute: Crossing
Description: How good he is at crossing the ball.
Attribute: Decisions
Description: How good he is at making the right decision as to what to do with
the ball.
Attribute: Dirtiness
Description: How dirty he is.
Attribute: Dribbling
Description: How good he is at dribbling with the ball.
Attribute: Finishing
Description: How good he is at scoring when given an opportunity.
Attribute: Flair
Description: How likely he is to do something special and unexpected.
Attribute: Free kicks
Description: How good he is at taking free kicks in dangerous positions.
Attribute: Handling
Description: How good he is at handling the ball. Note: Valid for goalkeepers
only.
Attribute: Heading
Description: How good he is at heading the ball. This does not include his
jumping ability.
Attribute: Important matches
Description: How well he performs in important matches
Attribute: Injury proneness
Description: How likely he is to get injured.
Attribute: Jumping
Description: How good he is at jumping for the ball.
Attribute: Leadership
Description: How well he leads and inspired his team mates.
Attribute: Left foot
Description: How strong his left foot is. Note: At least one of Left foot or
Right foot should be 20.
Attribute: Long shots
Description: How good he is at striking long range shots.
Attribute: Marking
Description: How good he is at marking opponents.
Attribute: Movement
Description: How good he is at moving into good attacking positions.
Attribute: Natural fitness
Description: His natural fitness level.
Attribute: One on ones
Description: How good he is at saving in one-on-one situations. Note: Valid for
goalkeepers only.
Attribute: Pace
Description: How fast he can run when at top speed.
Attribute: Passing
Description: How accurately he can pass the ball.
Attribute: Penalties
Description: How good he is at taking penalties.
Attribute: Positioning
Description: How good he is at keeping a good defensive position. Note: This
includes goalkeeper positioning.
Attribute: Reflexes
Description: How good he is at making reflex saves. Note: Valid only for
goalkeepers.
Attribute: Right foot
Description: How strong his right foot is. Note: At least one of Right foot or
Left foot should be 20.
Attribute: Stamina
Description: How long he is able to play before tiring.
Attribute: Strength
Description: How physically strong he is.
Attribute: Tackling
Description: How good he is at making tackles.
Attribute: Teamwork
Description: How good he is at playing for the team rather than for himself.
Attribute: Technique
Description: How good his technique and ball control is.
Attribute: Throw ins
Description: How good is at taking throw-ins.
Attribute: Versatility
Description: How easily he adapts to playing in unfamiliar positions.
Attribute: Vision
Description: How good he is at recognizing players in good positions to pass to.
Attribute: Work rate
Description: How hard he works in a match.
Page 9: History
Attribute: Season
Description: The season of this history entry. This value is the start-year of
the season, so if you put in “1999”, that means season “1999-2000” for leagues
where a season starts in the autumn one year and ends in the spring the next.
Type: Year (Number)
Range: 1985-2000
Attribute: Club
Description: Club this staff was at this Season.
Type: Text.
Range: Name of club chosen from list by clicking or double-clicking the Club
part of the history.
Attribute: Apps (Appearances)
Description: Number of appearances for this club in this season.
Type: Number
Range: 0-255
Attribute: Goals
Description: Number of goals for this club in this season.
Type: Number
Range: 0-255
Attribute: Loan
Description: Whether or not this staff was on loan to this club in this season.
Type: Number.
Range: 0 = false (not on loan), any other value = true (on loan).