Alan Dowson

  • 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
77
Potential ability
100
Home reputation
79
Current reputation
79
World reputation
30
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
6

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
53
Reputation
Regional 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness55 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength55 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping28 / 1001.5 / 5
GK handling28 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)50 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (technical)43 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)45 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)42 / 1002.5 / 5
Overall37 / 1002.0 / 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
6
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
2

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 8
Judging player potential 7
Judging staff ability 7
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 9
Youngsters 7
Motivating 11
People management 9
Discipline 15
Mind games 12
Determination 12
Buying players 12
Negotiating 8

13 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 6
Defending 10
Technical 5
Tactical 8
Mental 8
Fitness 10
Attacking 6
Defending 10
Technical 5
Tactical 8
Mental 8
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 10
Directness 13
Tempo 10
Width 10
Depth 10
Pressing 11
Flexibility 6
Flamboyancy 3
Squad rotation 6
Dirtiness allowance 6

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: 3 of 13 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
Millwall Player 1988-07-01 — Current
Fulham Player 1990-01-01 1990-07-01 Ended
Bradford City Player 1991-07-01 1992-01-01 Ended
Darlington (EXT) Player 1992-01-01 1993-07-01 Ended
Slough Town Player — 1994-07-01 Ended
Gateshead Player 1994-07-01 — Current
Walton & Hersham Player 1996-12-20 — Current
Walton & Hersham Player / Manager 2004-07-01 2005-06-30 Ended
Walton & Hersham Manager 2005-06-30 2007-01-10 Ended
Kingstonian Manager 2007-01-10 2014-05-11 Ended
Hampton & Richmond Borough Manager 2014-09-14 2018-05-18 Ended
Woking Manager 2018-05-18 2022-03-01 Ended
Dartford Manager 2022-05-31 2024-01-11 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

ClubRating
Millwall 50
Gateshead 75
Kingstonian 95
Woking 75

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Boreham Wood 90

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Martin Tyler 100
Ian Dyer 100
Christian Anthony Hillard Jolley 100
— 100
— 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1970-06-17
Nationality
England
Birth city
Gateshead
Joined current club
2024-01-11

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 9
Ambition 13
Controversy 11
Loyalty 16
Pressure 10
Professionalism 7
Sportsmanship 8
Temperament 7