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The arrow plot

A score says how well an end went. The Arrow Plot says where it went. For sessions shot with an athlete tapping each arrow onto the target face in the Velos mobile app, Velos keeps the position of every arrow and draws them back on a target on the web.

Where it appears

Section titled “Where it appears”

The plot is a card on the training session itself, on both the live screen and the completed session — no separate page, no export to open first. It sits between the session’s setup and its totals.

The Arrow Plot card of a training session in Velos. A row of pills reads All Ends, End 1 through End 12, with All Ends selected. Below, a World Archery target face with gold, red, blue, black and white rings carries about seventy green arrow markers, most clustered around the gold and two out in the black. Under it a line reads 67 of 72 arrows have positions.The Arrow Plot card of a training session in Velos. A row of pills reads All Ends, End 1 through End 12, with All Ends selected. Below, a World Archery target face with gold, red, blue, black and white rings carries about seventy green arrow markers, most clustered around the gold and two out in the black. Under it a line reads 67 of 72 arrows have positions.
Every plotted arrow of a session at once — the shape of a session, not just its score.

The target drawn is the session’s own face, at the ring count that face actually has: a reduced face — a 6-ring or a 1-spot — is drawn with its own rings rather than a full face with the outer ones greyed out, so an arrow sits where it sat on the real paper.

The line under the target — 67 of 72 arrows have positions — is the honest one. It counts the arrows of the whole session that carry a position against every arrow recorded, and it is not affected by which end you are looking at. Where the two numbers differ, some arrows were entered as a score without a tap: an end typed in afterwards, or a correction made on the web.

Reading one end at a time

Section titled “Reading one end at a time”

All Ends is the whole session. The pills beside it narrow the target to a single end.

The same Arrow Plot card with the End 3 pill selected instead of All Ends. The target now carries six green markers: four grouped tight on the edge of the gold, and two together further out in the blue.The same Arrow Plot card with the End 3 pill selected instead of All Ends. The target now carries six green markers: four grouped tight on the edge of the gold, and two together further out in the blue.
One end on its own. A group is only readable at this scale.

A whole session’s plot shows a tendency — a group sitting low, a drift left as the light goes. One end shows a group, which is what a coach actually talks about between ends. Only the ends that have plotted arrows get a pill, so an end typed in on the web is simply not offered.

Hovering an arrow names it — its end, its position in that end, and what it scored — which is how you find the flyer that cost an end without counting round the target.

Why a session might not have one

Section titled “Why a session might not have one”

The card only appears when there are arrows to draw, so a session with no plot is not a broken page. There are two ordinary reasons:

  1. The session was scored on the web. Typing 9, 8, 9 into an end records three scores and no positions. Positions come from tapping a target face, which is a mobile app action.
  2. The athlete surface is not switched on. Athletes only score their own sessions in the app where your federation, club or academy has enabled it.

A session can be part-plotted, and often is — the athlete tapped most of it and an end was fixed afterwards. Velos plots what it has and tells you the count.

Where the positions come from

Section titled “Where the positions come from”

The arrow positions are recorded once, at the line, by the athlete tapping the target face in the mobile app, and are stored as a position on the face rather than as a picture of it. The web plot re-draws them on the same face, at the same relative place, so what a coach sees on the web is what the athlete tapped on the phone.

That also means the plot is only ever as truthful as the tapping. It is a record of where the athlete said each arrow landed, and it deserves the same trust as the score entered beside it — no more.

Updated for v1.36.0