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Reviewer agreement and discrimination versus the baseline are observable outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The proposed check is low-volume and stops for symptoms or deterioration. It reserves measurement judgments for the sport scientist, reversible workload decisions for the coach, and injury assessment, restrictions, and return-to-play decisions for qualified clinical staff. Nothing in the retained sources creates an obvious prohibition, provided ordinary consent and local testing procedures are followed.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"The sources show that CMJ is used for fatigue and performance monitoring, that asymmetry and force-time metrics are commercially available, and that protocol and measurement variability can materially affect interpretation. This supports causal ambiguity and the need to verify measurement quality. 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Existing products expose detailed metrics but the retained sources do not document the proposal's full rival-comparison workflow or directly establish how often staff prematurely convert anomalies into effort, training, or health judgments.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P118","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":"Results addressed individual components—repeatability, fatigue sensitivity, protocol effects, force-time metrics, and asymmetry—but no opened result combined them with an abductive case memo, authority boundary, and preregistered disconfirming probe.","queries":["countermovement jump unexpected performance drop asymmetry monitoring fatigue measurement error protocol interpretation","CMJ force plate anomaly decision making workflow asymmetry fatigue injury monitoring","countermovement jump 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Australian Institute of Sport","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","title":"National Protocols for the Assessment of Strength and Power","url":"https://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/position_statements/national-protocols-for-the-assessment-of-strength-and-power"},{"claims_supported":["CMJ inter-limb asymmetry has measurable within- and between-session variability and should be evaluated using reliability and smallest-worthwhile-change information.","Arm-swing protocol affects some asymmetry variables, supporting protocol matching and caution against treating a changed asymmetry as a direct causal diagnosis."],"publisher":"MDPI, Sports","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Countermovement Jump Inter-Limb Asymmetries in Collegiate Basketball Players","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6572434/"},{"claims_supported":["Controlled repeated testing found CMJ variables responsive to a fatiguing exposure and recovery intervals.","CMJ testing had sufficient repeatability and fatigue sensitivity to constitute adjacent prior art for a standardized recheck, without establishing individual causal discrimination."],"publisher":"Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research / National Strength and Conditioning Association","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Comparison of the Capacity of Different Jump and Sprint Field Tests to Detect Neuromuscular Fatigue","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26308829/"},{"claims_supported":["A commercial force-platform system already provides CMJ jump-height, force-time-phase, left-right force, impulse, and asymmetry metrics for profiling and monitoring.","The product supports informed return-to-performance use but the opened metric database does not present an explicit multi-rival explanation matrix, defeasibility state, or authority-limited disconfirming probe."],"publisher":"Hawkin Dynamics","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"Hawkin Force 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It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, realized safety, or value; unpublished team procedures, paywalled material, patents, and differently described products could still disclose the combination."}