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
123
Potential ability
135
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
120
World reputation
55
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
1

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
49
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
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
0
Hair colour code
0
Hair length 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

A staff_ability row exists, but none of its 26 values are recorded.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Tactical style

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

Career spells

Marked current: 7 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 Manager 1999-03-06 2004-07-01 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2004-07-02 2007-11-02 Ended
Cheltenham Town 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 Coach 2009-07-01 2012-06-08 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Assistant Manager 2012-06-08 2015-01-09 Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
England Manager 2015-07-28 — Current

Club contract

Team
—
Joined
2015-01-09
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£0

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked people

PersonRating
Paul Downing 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1965-07-23
Nationality
England
Birth city
Warley
Joined current club
2015-01-09

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