Welcome
Archery Geekery is an occasional blog about topics related to the mathematical, statistical aspects of archery, Everything from handicaps and classifications, to records and visualisation. This site was originally created as the development environment for the offcial ArcheryGB Handicap and Classification tables, and now hosts some tools for creating of handicap and classification tables, and a quick calculator, but more content and tools will appear all the time.
Recent Posts
- Analysing the point gain from thicker arrows
- 720 vs 660 round comparison
- Handicap System Maths
- How Does the Olympic Archery Quota System Work?
- Modelling Archery Awards Ceremony Structures
- UK Indoor Archery Rounds – The Finer Details
- Overview of the New Indoor Handicap and Classification Systems
- Master Bowman Tier Classification Claim Validator
Recent Articles
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Beginners Series: Part 1 – Rounds
Most of the articles on this site focus on the intricate details of archery data, rules and scoring, but by popular demand, this short series will focus on some of the basics, for archers who are new to the sport. First up is rounds. A round is just a shorthand way of describing what we’re…
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Accurate SVG Archery Target Images
I often need images of target faces for various projects and presentations, and it’s always frustrating trying to find images that are high-resolution, correctly proportioned, and the correct colours. So, I thought I’d fix this problem by making my own, and sharing them here. For this project, I’m producing the images in Scalable Vector Graphics…
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How to be an Archery Club Records Officer: Part 4 – Outdoor Classifications
Just like the coloured belts in karate, the classification system in UK Archery represents a set of 9 milestones on an archer’s journey for beginner to master. It is the job of the club records officer to track the classification level of each club member. As with all the articles in this series, I would…
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How to be an Archery Club Records Officer: Part 3 – Handicaps
One of the key roles of the records officer is to maintain a list of handicaps for the archers in the club. As with the other articles in this series, I would strongly recommend you use some records management software to do this as it can be quite time consuming to do it manually. However,…
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When’s the best time of year to run youth archery events in the UK?
Recently, someone mentioned to me how hard it was to get the best juniors to attend tournaments in the first few months of the outdoor season, and this immediately set me wondering why that would be. The answer, of course, is obvious – exams. The first months of the UK outdoor season, typically April and…
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How to be an Archery Club Records Officer: Part 2 – Club Records
One of the most fundamental duties of a Club Records Officer is to maintain a list of the Club Records. We need to be clear on terminology here though as the word “records” has two different meanings here – This article is all about the second of these, maintaining a list of the clubs best…
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How to be an Archery Club Records Officer: Part 1 – The Basics
I get lots of questions from people who are new to the role of Club Records Officer about what the role involves and how to do it, so I thought I’d write it all down into a multi-part guide. This first part will cover the basics of what the role involves, and then subsequent parts…
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Effects of New Age Group Definitions on Records
As I’ve written about before, in October 2023 ArcheryGB made some quite significant changes to the age groups for target archery in the UK. This included adding some new groups (50+, U21, and U15), and also crucially, changing the definition of how age groups are even defined. So, even for the age groups that don’t…
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Handicap Tools and Table Generation
The UK archery handicap system is one of the most underrated assets we have in this country. It provides a mathematically rigorous way of quantifying accuracy in archery, and then uses that to calculated expected scores on different rounds for that level of accuracy. The system was originally devise by the late David Lane, and…
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Mobile Friendly Classification Tables
The standard PDF classification tables are perfect for printing out and putting in your bowbag. You could even fold them down the middle and laminate it in an A5 pouch if you’re really keen. However, when you’re out on the field, the wide A4 Landscape format is not ideal for looking at on your phone.…