Simon Grayson

  • England
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
118
Potential ability
132
Home reputation
118
Current reputation
118
World reputation
70
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

The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
3
Hair length code
5
Skin tone code
5

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: 4 of 16 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
Leeds United Player — 1992-03-13 Ended
Leicester City Player 1992-03-13 1997-07-01 Ended
Aston Villa Player 1997-07-01 1999-07-29 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Player 1999-07-29 2002-06-30 Ended
Sheffield Wednesday Player 2000-08-11 — Current
Stockport County Player 2001-01-12 — Current
Notts County Player 2001-09-06 — Current
Bradford City Player 2002-02-15 — Current
Blackpool Player — 2005-11-01 Ended
Blackpool Player / Coach 2004-07-01 2005-11-12 Ended
Blackpool Manager 2005-11-12 2008-12-24 Ended
Leeds United Manager 2008-12-24 2012-02-01 Ended
Huddersfield Town Manager 2012-02-20 2013-01-24 Ended
Preston North End Manager 2013-02-18 2017-06-29 Ended
Sunderland Manager 2017-06-29 2017-10-31 Ended
Bradford City Manager 2018-02-11 2018-05-08 Ended

National-team spells

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

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-12-16
Nationality
England
Birth city
Harrogate
Joined current club
2018-05-08

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 10
Ambition 12
Controversy 5
Loyalty 18
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 10