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
115
Potential ability
132
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
11
Hair length code
6
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

Judging player ability 12
Judging player potential 11
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 10
Youngsters 12
Motivating 12
People management 12
Discipline 12
Mind games 3
Determination 12
Buying players 12

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 11
Defending 13
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 14
Fitness 10
Attacking 11
Defending 13
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 14
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 11
Directness 13
Tempo 14
Width 14
Depth 12
Pressing 14
Flexibility 14
Flamboyancy 8
Squad rotation 12
Dirtiness allowance 7

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 19 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 1987-07-01 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 2001-02-11 Ended
Stockport County Player 2001-01-12 2001-07-12 Ended
Notts County Player 2001-09-06 2002-03-06 Ended
Bradford City Player 2002-02-15 2002-08-15 Ended
Blackpool Player 2002-06-30 — Current
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
Blackpool Manager 2019-07-06 2020-02-12 Ended
Fleetwood Town Manager 2021-01-31 2021-11-24 Ended
Bengaluru Manager 2022-06-08 2023-12-09 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

PersonRating
Glynn Snodin 90
Steven James Thompson 90
Ian Miller 90
Michael Joseph McCarthy 75
— 75
— 75

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-12-16
Nationality
England
Birth city
Harrogate
Joined current club
2023-12-09

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