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Tabb18
Squad number 18, club colours

Jay Tabb

PlayerIRL Contracted to 2015Home-grown —
117 Current ability
128 Potential ability
—Estimated value
£6,000Weekly wage
3Caps

Attributes

Technical

  • Corners— 10
  • Crossing— 11
  • Dribbling— 12
  • Finishing— 10
  • First touch— 12
  • Free kicks— 11
  • Heading— 5
  • Long shots— 12
  • Long throws— 6
  • Marking— 10
  • Passing— 11
  • Penalties— 11
  • Tackling— 12
  • Technique— 13
  • Versatility— 11

Mental

  • Aggression— 13
  • Anticipation— 13
  • Bravery— 15
  • Composure— 12
  • Concentration— 11
  • Consistency— 15
  • Decisions— 14
  • Determination— 14
  • Dirtiness— 7
  • Flair— 12
  • Important matches— 13
  • Leadership— 5
  • Off the ball— 14
  • Positioning— 13
  • Team work— 14
  • Vision— 13
  • Work rate— 16

Physical

  • Acceleration— 11
  • Agility— 10
  • Balance— 11
  • Injury proneness— 10
  • Jumping reach— 5
  • Natural fitness— 15
  • Pace— 9
  • Stamina— 16
  • Strength— 10
15–2011–146–101–5Not recorded▲ ▼ change across versions

This is the first version of its game, so there is no earlier database in the same game to compare with. A + marks a value this version records and the earlier one does not; a ! marks a stored value outside the 1–20 scale, which is left unsubtracted.

Positions

  • GK—
  • SW—
  • DL10
  • DC—
  • DR8
  • DM20
  • ML15
  • MC15
  • MR11
  • AML10
  • AMC10
  • AMR9
  • ST4
  • WBL10
  • WBR5
Competency on the game's 1–20 scale. A dashed ring is a position with no recorded competency.
DMC 20 ML 15 MC 15 MR 11 DL 10 AML 10 AMC 10 WBL 10 AMR 9 DR 8 WBR 5 FC 4

Best roles

FMDB calculation
Role Duty Suitability
Central MidfielderMCSupport13.5 / 20
Box-to-Box MidfielderMCSupport13.3 / 20
Wide MidfielderMLSupport13.3 / 20
Defensive MidfielderDMCDefend13.0 / 20
MezzalaMCAttack13.0 / 20
Wing BackDLSupport12.9 / 20
Inverted Wing BackDLSupport12.8 / 20
Complete Wing BackWBLAttack12.7 / 20

The FMDB's own figure, not a game scouting star: the weighted mean of the recorded attributes for each role, on the source's own 1–20 scale, with a role's key attributes counted 2× its preferable ones. Roles are offered only for positions with a recorded competency of at least 10, and a role scored from under 70% of its attributes is withheld rather than published from a handful of values.

Personal information

Full name
—
Common name
—
Date of birth
1984-02-21
Nationality
Republic of Ireland
Other nationalities
—
Birth city
London
Height and weight
—
Youth club
—
Agent
—
Languages
English

Club contract

Club
Ipswich Town
Squad
Ipswich Town
Squad number
18
Type
—
Squad status
—
Joined
2013-07-01
Contract start
—
Expires
2015-06-30
Weekly wage
£6,000
Estimated value
—
Transfer status
—
Asking price
—

Joined is the club-join date on the person row. Contract start is the date the current contract was last signed, as the modern export records it; CSV-era versions record only the join date. Type comes from person_contract_detail where the version decodes it.

Player profile

Current ability
117
Potential ability
128
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
110
World reputation
60
Personality
—
Media handling
—
Favourite squad number
—

Ability and reputation are stored on the game's internal scale, which runs to about 200, and shown unchanged; the stars in the header are that figure out of five.

Home-grown and training

Exported; UI pending
Trained in Days Since
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Home-grown at club
—
Home-grown in nation
—
Trained in the EU
—
Qualifies as
—

Modern exports include training days and recorded trained status. This panel has not integrated them; eligibility must respect the recorded rule and location type.

Personality

  • Adaptability 14
  • Ambition 16
  • Controversy 5
  • Loyalty 11
  • Pressure 12
  • Professionalism 16
  • Sportsmanship 14
  • Temperament 14

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes. A dash is a value the export did not record.

Feet

  • Left foot 20
  • Right foot 13

Goalkeeping

No goalkeeping attributes recorded

Shown only when at least one value in player_goalkeeper_attributes is recorded.

Across versions

Recorded
Jay Tabb current and potential ability across versions0100200 CM0102 RFM05 RFM07 UFM10 RFM12 RFM14 RFM16 RFM17 UCurrent ability, CM0102 Release: 60 Current ability, CM0203 Release: 60 Current ability, CM0304 Release: 85 Current ability, CM0304 Update: 85 Current ability, FM05 Release: 95 Current ability, FM05 Update: 100 Current ability, FM06 Release: 100 Current ability, FM07 Release: 110 Current ability, FM07 Update: 110 Current ability, FM08 Release: 110 Current ability, FM09 Release: 120 Current ability, FM09 Update: 115 Current ability, FM10 Release: 116 Current ability, FM10 Update: 108 Current ability, FM11 Release: 108 Current ability, FM11 Update: 108 Current ability, FM12 Release: 108 Current ability, FM12 Update: 108 Current ability, FM13 Release: 116 Current ability, FM13 Update: 118 Current ability, FM14 Release: 117 Current ability, FM14 Update: 114 Current ability, FM15 Release: 111 Current ability, FM15 Update: 118 Current ability, FM16 Release: 116 Current ability, FM16 Update: 110 Current ability, FM17 Release: 102 Current ability, FM17 Update: 102 Potential ability, CM0102 Release: 116 Potential ability, CM0203 Release: 116 Potential ability, CM0304 Release: 120 Potential ability, CM0304 Update: 120 Potential ability, FM05 Release: 130 Potential ability, FM05 Update: 130 Potential ability, FM06 Release: 130 Potential ability, FM07 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM07 Update: 135 Potential ability, FM08 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM09 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM09 Update: 135 Potential ability, FM10 Release: 135 Potential ability, FM10 Update: 135 Potential ability, FM11 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM11 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM12 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM12 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM13 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM13 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM14 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM14 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM15 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM15 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM16 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM16 Update: 128 Potential ability, FM17 Release: 128 Potential ability, FM17 Update: 128
Current ability 117Potential ability 128
Recorded ability in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. Negative potential codes are listed in the data table, not plotted as fixed abilities.
Jay Tabb weekly wage across versions£0£16K CM0102 RFM05 RFM07 UFM10 RFM12 RFM14 RFM16 RFM17 UWeekly wage, CM0102 Release: £150 Weekly wage, CM0203 Release: £150 Weekly wage, CM0304 Release: £350 Weekly wage, CM0304 Update: £350 Weekly wage, FM05 Release: £350 Weekly wage, FM05 Update: £700 Weekly wage, FM06 Release: £700 Weekly wage, FM07 Release: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM07 Update: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM08 Release: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM09 Release: £1,500 Weekly wage, FM09 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM10 Release: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM10 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM11 Release: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM11 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM12 Release: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM12 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM13 Release: £14,000 Weekly wage, FM13 Update: £16,000 Weekly wage, FM14 Release: £6,000 Weekly wage, FM14 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM15 Release: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM15 Update: £7,500 Weekly wage, FM16 Release: £6,500 Weekly wage, FM16 Update: £6,500
Recorded weekly wage (GBP) in each database where this uid resolves. Missing values remain gaps. The table below the chart also carries the recorded estimated value in each of those databases.

Attribute summary

Attribute summary Attribute summary: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Attribute summary: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded Derived by thefmdb by averaging the attributes listed below. The Football Manager database stores no such summary.
Axis Mean Coverage
Pace10.02 of 2 recorded
Physical11.26 of 6 recorded
Technical11.85 of 5 recorded
Mental13.49 of 9 recorded
Defending11.05 of 5 recorded
Shooting11.03 of 3 recorded

Percentile wheel

No percentile distribution has been built for this version.
Axis Percentile Measured against
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Injuries

0 recorded
Injury From Returned Side Severity Flags
——————

Bars are the recorded absence; amber is over three weeks, red over two months. severity is a raw number from the source.

Clauses and bonuses

None recorded
Clause Amount Applies
———

Recorded clauses come from person_contract_clause and clause_type. Modern person_contract_bonus rows, where a contract has them, are counted here and wait for clause-specific interpretation before any amount is shown.

International

Youth level pending
Senior caps and goals
3 caps
Under-21
—
Youth
—
Declared for
—
Eligible for
—
Debut
—
First goal
—

Caps, goals, previous nations, debut and first goal come from person_international_record where the version exports it; debut and first-goal dates are decoded in FM24 and rarely elsewhere. Versions without the table show senior caps from the player row only. Eligibility lists the nations person_nationality marks eligible-for. No export establishes youth-level records. Missing fields stay blank.

Honours

Partial export
—

FM24 exports achievements with event codes and date precision in starting_person_history and starting_person_history_date. Other versions remain unsupported, and this panel still needs validated event interpretation. A club spell during a winning season does not prove a personal medal. The awards panel below shows recorded placings.

Career

0 marked current
Club Role From To Status
—————
Career apps and goals
321 (32)
Clubs
—
Loans
0
First professional contract
—

Career appearances and goals combine the recorded player_history rows this page has checked do not overlap: every detail row, plus a summary row only where no detail row covers the same season at the same club. The clubs count is the distinct clubs in the career spells above. The date of a first professional contract is not derivable from the earliest history row.

Season record

Season record

One row per season as the export recorded it. A transfer fee is shown where a figure was stored; where the source recorded only a sentinel — "Undisclosed fee", "Unknown fee" — that sentinel is printed instead. A fee of zero is a fee of zero, not a missing one.

Season Club Division Apps Goals Transfer fee Joined Left
2002–03 Brentford — 5 0 — — —
2003–04 Brentford — 36 9 — — —
2004–05 Brentford — 40 5 — — —
2001–02 Brentford — 3 0 — — —
2000–01 Brentford — 2 0 — — —
2006–07 Coventry City — 31 3 — 2006-06-30 —
2007–08 Coventry City — 42 5 — — —
2008–09 Coventry City — 22 3 £500,000 — 2009-01-19
2008–09 Reading — 9 0 — 2009-01-19 —
2009–10 Reading — 28 0 — — —
2005–06 Brentford — 42 6 £-1 — 2006-06-30
2002–03 Crawley Town — — — — — —
2010–11 Reading — 21 0 — — —
2011–12 Reading — 19 0 — — —
2012–13 Reading — 12 0 £0 — 2013-06-30
2012–13 Ipswich Town — 9 1 — 2013-03-08 2013-04-30

Similar players

FMDB calculation
Player Club Match
Matthew Thomas RitchieAFC Bournemouth91.0%
Matthew Lee JamesLeicester City90.8%
Joshua James VelaBolton Wanderers90.3%
Simon James GillettNottingham Forest90.0%
Paul DixonHuddersfield Town89.9%

Nearest recorded attribute profiles among 120 players in Sky Bet Championship within 15 current ability, compared on the attributes both record. Not a whole-database search. The match is the mean absolute difference over those attributes expressed against the 1–20 scale; an attribute only one of the two records is left out rather than counted as a gap of fourteen.

National-team spells

No national-team spells recorded

Nothing in person_nation_contract for this person, although 3 international appearances are recorded on the player row.

Bans and absences

Type From To Matches Competition Nation
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Awards

0 recorded
Season Award Placed
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Likes and dislikes

In the export
Favoured clubs
—
Disliked clubs
—
Favoured people
—
Disliked people
—

Other relations

Target type Target Rating
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Familiarity

Target type Target Level Linked
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Preferred moves

Needs mapping

The source records preferred moves as bits. Names need a validated export mapping.

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Data wishlist for this page

18 data pointsWhole site
  • person_days_at_location, person_trained_status Training days and recorded home-grown status Exported; UI pendingThe modern schema includes days, age bands and trained-at-club or trained-in-nation relationships. Rule codes and target kinds must be respected; these rows do not prove eligibility under every competition rule.
  • person names, date_of_birth, height_cm, weight_kg Names, birth date, height and weight Now liveRecorded identity and measurements are displayed; missing values stay blank.
  • export_meta.reference_date Age at the in-game date No reference dateThe base .dat source does not store an authoritative reference date. Birth year alone cannot establish an exact age.
  • person_nationality, person.declared_nation_uid Additional nationalities and declared nation Now liveSecond, third and resident nationalities with their source relationship labels, and the declared nation, are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions say so.
  • person_contract_detail, person_club_status Contract type, squad status and explicit unattached status Partial exportContract type is displayed where contract_status is decoded (FM24); the FM26 exports carry the column as NULL on every row. squad_status has no lookup table and has_no_club is not yet used; a missing contract is not evidence of free agency.
  • playing-time promises and market status Playing-time promise, transfer or loan listing and asking price Needs source dataThese facts are not established by the current contract-detail or club-status columns.
  • person_contract_clause, person_contract_bonus Contract clauses and bonuses Partial exportRecorded clauses are displayed. Starting-contract bonus rows are counted with their raw type codes; cash and misc need clause-specific interpretation before any amount or condition is shown.
  • agent identity and representation Agent Needs source dataThe current catalog has no agent identity or representation relation.
  • player attribute tables and PlayerRoles Role suitability Now liveFMDB calculates its own weighted attribute scores for competent positions, with coverage thresholds; these are not stored scouting stars.
  • attribute tables in the previous version of the same game Attribute changes since the previous version Now liveComparisons distinguish a changed value, newly recorded data, missing data and off-scale values.
  • player and person_club_contract across versions Ability, potential, value and wage across versions Now liveCharts use recorded values after identity checks in each target database. Missing values and coded potential are not invented chart points.
  • person personality attributes; preferred_move.bit_index Personality, media handling and preferred-move labels Needs validationPersonality scores and move bits are recorded. Validated labels and era-specific mappings are still missing.
  • person_international_record Senior and under-21 goals, caps and debut details Now liveSenior and under-21 caps and goals, previous nations, debut and first goal are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions fall back to senior caps from the player row. Youth categories are not established.
  • starting_person_history, starting_person_history_date Personal honours and milestones Partial exportFM24 achievements include record_type, job, flags and date precision. Other versions remain unsupported; the page still needs validated event interpretation. Club membership in a winning season does not prove a medal.
  • player_history Career totals and recorded season history with fees Now liveTotals use bounded history and exclude overlapping summary rows. Coverage depends on the selected player and version.
  • player attribute vectors within a bounded division cohort Similar players Now liveFMDB compares shared recorded attributes within the documented ability band and candidate cap; this is not a whole-database search.
  • award_history_winner and person relationship tables Recorded awards, liked and disliked clubs and people Now liveOnly resolving identities are linked; missing relationships remain missing.
  • explicit youth and first-professional-contract events Youth club and first professional contract Needs source dataAn earliest career row, current contract start or forced initial contract date does not establish either fact.

Reviewed 30 September 2026 against the current schema and page implementation. “Now live” means implemented where data is recorded; “Exported; UI pending” means the schema has data this page does not yet use. Tables and coverage vary by version. Missing values stay blank.