https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scores Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scoresThree associations point the same way, and nobody has yet had the same archers shoot different draw weights. In elite archers, measured before a World Cup event, self-reported draw force enters the model that predicts the score of the shot, but the effect is small, about half a point across the group's typical spread, and the group varies little: 24.55 kg on average with a standard deviation of 2.53. In thirty-three national and international level Indian archers the correlation is stronger, 0.608, except that the sample pools recurve at seventy metres with compound at fifty, two divisions that differ both in pounds and in points. In twenty-seven regional compound archers a greater draw force goes with higher scores, but only by way of arrow speed, since the direct effect is nil. A fourth, from 2026, points the other way: in forty-five provincial-level recurve archers draw weight, between 34 and 48 lb, does not correlate with score, but it is a secondary figure published in a journal with questionable editorial standards. In between sit two findings that keep the picture grounded: among elite, pre-elite and beginner Japanese archers draw weight does not separate the levels, and within the same compound sample the men draw far more force than the women and score the same. What all this reads as is that draw weight and level travel together, not that the pounds bring the points.claim:libbraggio-punteggio:revision:2026-10-01:5Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scores#storiaThe first study to correlate draw weight directly with score and find no link arrives: in forty-five provincial-level recurve archers, with bows between 34 and 48 lb, the correlation is 0.11 and not significant. It is a secondary figure in a study on diet, published in a journal with questionable editorial standards, and under the registry's rules a contrary study this weak, set beside three supporting associations, does not make the picture contested. The status stays reported, but the reading that draw weight and level travel together, rather than the pounds bringing the points, comes out stronger.claim:libbraggio-punteggio:history_entry:2026-08-26:2026Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scores#storiaThose competing at European level draw four pounds more on average than those competing at national level, 42.9 against 38.5. It explains why the idea circulates, but it is a comparison between levels, and between indoor and outdoor, that says nothing about cause. In the same year a comparison between elite, pre-elite and beginner Japanese archers finds no difference in draw weight between the levels, but that result concerns the archer's level rather than the score, and it is not enough to split the picture. Neither study tests the link between pounds and points: the status stays reported.claim:libbraggio-punteggio:history_entry:2026-08-26:2018Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scores#storiaIn elite archers a heavier draw weight is associated with higher-scoring shots, with a small effect: evidence on archers in favour, but from a single study and only an association, hence reported.claim:libbraggio-punteggio:history_entry:2026-08-26:2017Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scores#storiaThe third study on archers arrives, twenty-seven regional compound archers: a greater draw force goes with higher scores, but only by way of arrow speed, since the direct effect is nil. Within the same sample the men draw far more force than the women and score the same. Three cross-sectional associations, none of which has the same archers shoot different draw weights, do not add up to corroborated: the status stays reported.claim:libbraggio-punteggio:status_change:2026-07-06:riportatoMon, 06 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/heavier-draw-weight-higher-scoresclaim:libbraggio-punteggio:new_claim:2026-05-15:non_studiatoFri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT