Keith Downing

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
105
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
85
Current reputation
85
World reputation
15
International appearances
0
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
43
Reputation
— 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

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
1
Hair colour code
0
Skin tone code
2

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

Tactical knowledge 16
Coaching 14
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 13
People management 10
Discipline 17
Mind games 7
Determination 16
Buying players 11

9 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Motivating, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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: Technical, Mental. Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Technical, Mental.
4 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Technical, Mental
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 10
Defending 16
Technical Not recorded
Tactical 12
Mental Not recorded
Fitness 14
Attacking 10
Defending 16
Tactical 12
Fitness 14

4 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Technical, Mental.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 13
Sitting back 11
Marking 13
Offside 9
Use of playmaker 5
Use of subs 13
Free roles 7
Squad rotation 9

8 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Directness, Tempo, Width, Depth, Pressing, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 9 of 15 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
Mile Oak Player — — Current
Notts County Player — — Current
Wolverhampton Wanderers Player — — Current
Birmingham City Player — — Current
Stoke City Player — — Current
Cardiff City Player — — Current
Hereford United Player — — Current
Hereford United Player / Coach 1998-06-01 1999-03-05 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Sports Scientist 1999-03-06 2004-07-01 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2004-07-02 2007-11-02 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2007-10-02 2007-11-02 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2007-11-02 2008-09-12 Ended
Port Vale Assistant Manager 2009-02-05 2009-05-02 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Sports Scientist 2009-07-01 — Current
West Bromwich Albion Assistant Manager 2009-07-01 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
—
Contract start
—
Expires
2011-06-30
Weekly wage
£650

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 606 —

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

No relations or preferences are recorded for this person.

Personal information

Date of birth
1965-07-23
Nationality
England
Birth city
Warley

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 —
Ambition 10
Controversy —
Loyalty 16
Pressure —
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 15