David Wright

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
125
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
132
Current reputation
132
World reputation
25
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
43
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Passing
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness45 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength45 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping27 / 1001.5 / 5
GK handling27 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall55 / 1003.0 / 5

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
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 13
Judging player potential 15
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 16
Youngsters 20
Motivating 14
People management 14
Discipline 8
Determination 14

9 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, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, 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 10
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 8
Fitness 7
Attacking 10
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 8
Fitness 7

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 14
Directness 3
Tempo 11
Width 13
Depth 8
Pressing 14
Flexibility 12
Flamboyancy 13
Squad rotation 7

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

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 14 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
Crewe Alexandra Player 1996-07-01 2004-06-27 Ended
Wigan Athletic Player 2004-06-27 2007-01-11 Ended
Norwich City Player 2005-11-17 2005-12-18 Ended
Ipswich Town Player 2007-01-11 2010-06-30 Ended
Crystal Palace Player 2010-07-01 2013-01-25 Ended
Gillingham Player 2012-09-12 2012-11-22 Ended
Colchester United Player 2013-01-25 — Current
Colchester United Assistant Manager — 2016-06-30 Ended
Ipswich Town Youth Coach 2014-11-25 2015-06-17 Ended
Colchester United Manager 2016-07-01 2016-11-08 Ended
Norwich City Manager 2016-11-08 2018-12-10 Ended
Norwich City Manager 2018-12-11 2021-08-16 Ended
Milton Keynes Dons Assistant Manager 2021-08-17 2022-12-11 Ended
Ipswich Town Coach 2023-01-23 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2023-01-23
Contract start
2023-01-23
Expires
2023-06-30
Weekly wage
£900

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 667 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2014-11-25

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Ipswich Town 80
Crewe Alexandra 75

Liked people

PersonRating
— 80

Personal information

Date of birth
1980-05-01
Nationality
England
Birth city
Warrington
Joined current club
2023-01-23

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 13
Ambition 14
Controversy 7
Loyalty 16
Pressure 12
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 16