But 400 is the remarkable number that current Bantams boss Graham Alexander managed at Preston.
He will be reunited with North End next month when they head over the Pennines to come and play a pre-season game at Valley Parade.
Many associate the former full back with Preston’s near neighbours Burnley, who he helped reach the Premier League for the very first time back in 2009.
But he played more than double the number of games at North End than he did for the Clarets, and not only that, but he did it over two spells, returning to Deepdale in 2011 just before turning 40.
It meant Alexander saw both sides of the coin there, the late bloomer with unfulfilled potential who arrived in 1999, and the veteran family man who returned 12 years later to give it his all, in one last hurrah.
The Coventry native arrived at Preston having spent just one season in his whole career above the third tier, which ended in relegation with Luton in 1995-96.
But what he found at Deepdale was a young manager by the name of David Moyes, who made it fairly plain to him that he was wasting his talent.
David Moyes has managed with distinction for nearly 25 years in the Premier League, but it all started at Preston for him, where he had to get tough with Graham Alexander. (Image: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
In a fascinating interview with our Scottish sister paper, The National, in 2021, Alexander said: “Davie was the one who shook me up when I was player, the one who said get your life sorted and do this and do that.
“To be honest, I was a pain in the arse.
“I thank him now for his patience with me because he could easily have given up.
“He could see I had talent but me and him would clash about it because I thought I knew better.
“But he persevered with me and then finally the penny dropped and I thought what an idiot [I had been]. I got called up for Scotland and I thought I have got to listen to this guy!
“That was it, from that moment I was dedicated.
“I have had other ones, managers who gave me my debut and so on.
“They had influence on me but I probably was not old enough or mature enough to understand.
“Davie was the first one where I thought, ‘yeah that is it’.
“And there is a little version of him on my shoulder every day.”
Moyes and an ever-present Alexander helped Preston to promotion in 2000 and they almost went back-to-back, straight up to the Premier League.
But a 3-0 defeat to Bolton in the 2001 First Division play-off final was a tough pill to swallow.
Graham Alexander faces up to Bradford City's Michael Standing during the pair's Championship encounter in 2002, with Preston never having quite made it up to the Premier League like the Bantams. (Image: Frances Leader)
In fact, Wanderers remain the only side to have ever denied Alexander in the play-offs, having also beaten his City side 2-0 on aggregate last month.
Otherwise, Alexander won the play-offs with Burnley as a player, then repeated the trick as manager of Fleetwood and Salford.
Discussing his 2001 heartache at Preston with T&A chief sports writer Simon Parker ahead of last month’s two legs against Bolton, he’d said: “From my experience, you remember them all and take lessons from them all (play-off campaigns).
“You take a little bit of pain forward from the ones you’re not successful from.
“You don’t drag it round like a corpse, but I think it’s good to have that feeling at the back of your mind.
“You’re thinking, ‘I don’t want to experience that again, so I need to be more disciplined than usual and extra-vigilant about what I’ve got to do.’
“You can take things from most experiences and difficult times can be a driver.
“It makes you work even harder because you don’t want to feel like that again.”
Alexander continued to grow as a player and leader at Preston, earning the first of his 40 Scotland caps there in 2002, while he was part of the PFA Championship Team of the Season in 2004-05.
Preston vehemently resisted approaches from the likes of Crystal Palace in the summer of 2007 for the full back, but he surprisingly left for Burnley that August, largely because the Clarets could offer him a two-year deal, and North End only one.
Burnley and Preston had been vying to sign him in 1999, so the former had finally got their man.
It was hardly a move that went down well with Preston fans, but Alexander got the chance to make amends when he returned in 2011 for one final season as a player.
He featured 21 times in total, helping steer them clear of a League One relegation battle they were threatening to fall into, before a fairytale finale.
In his final appearance as a player, at the age of 40 in April 2012, he scored a last-gasp free-kick to seal a 2-2 draw with Charlton.
Graham Alexander brought up an incredible 1,000th career appearance for Burnley in this game in April 2011, yet he was not done, and would play on for another year with Preston. (Image: PA)
But he did not change his mind, instead seeing it as the right way to bow out.
Afterwards, he told the Lancashire Evening Post: "It was a tough decision to retire but it's the right one.
"The occasion was very emotional, there were a couple of times when I had to keep myself in check.
"I felt emotional driving to the ground on Saturday morning because it was my last day as a player.
“Then I got quite nervous about actually going out there and doing a job - things just took over me when I scored.
"My wife, kids and dad were in tears, I know that because my kids told me when they came on the pitch at the end."
Graham Alexander is so highly-regarded at Preston that he was asked to help carry the coffin of the club's greatest-ever player Sir Tom Finney, who died at the age of 91 in 2014. (Image: PA)
His kids are all grown up now, and it’s unlikely there’ll be tears at Valley Parade next month.
But while the game against Preston might be low stakes, the occasion should be one for Alexander to savour.
The club who did so much to shape his career, visiting the club whose house he now calls home.