Evidence-Based.
Peer-Reviewed.
EchoDepth Sport is built on a foundation of peer-reviewed science, governing body institutional evidence, and verified market data — not proprietary claims.
By Jonathan Prescott, Founder & CEO — MBA (Bayes Business School), B.Eng Computer Systems Engineering. Last updated 21 October 2026.
Market Evidence
~$1B
Global AI-in-sport market 2024
Janus Henderson Investors
~$2.6B
Projected AI-in-sport 2030
MarketsandMarkets
20.7%
UK sports tech CAGR 2024–2030
Sports Insight / SoccerWares
89%
Sport execs expect AI to transform operations
WSC Sports 2025
Governing Body Evidence
RFU / England Rugby
Mandatory Mental Health Medical Leads and league-wide Mental Wellbeing Monitoring programme introduced across Premiership Rugby following Cardiff Metropolitan University research with 691 players
British Psychological Society (Oct 2025)
Calling for FA, Premier League, and EFL to fund mandated psychological monitoring in all professional academies — identifying a postcode lottery for mental health support
Premiership Rugby
Mental Health UK named as official charity partner for 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons — the first official Premiership Rugby charity partner
RocheMartin / England Rugby
Neil Craig, High Performance Manager, England Rugby: EI is one of the most important characteristics of functional leadership in sport
Peer-Reviewed Bibliography
Core research papers with DOI citations underpinning EchoDepth Sport. Citation counts are from Crossref (October 2026) and undercount older works.
FACS Methodology
Facial Action Coding System: A Technique for the Measurement of Facial Movement
Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1978). Consulting Psychologists Press
Multimodal Spontaneous Emotion Corpus for Human Behavior Analysis (BP4D+)
Zhang, Z., et al. (2016). IEEE CVPR
What the Face Reveals
Ekman, P., & Rosenberg, E. L. (2005). Oxford University Press
VAD Emotional Modelling
A Circumplex Model of Affect
Russell, J. A. (1980). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DEAP: A Database for Emotion Analysis Using Physiological Signals
Koelstra, S., et al. (2012). IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
The Self-Assessment Manikin
Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1994). J. Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry
Sport Psychology & Performance
Mental Health in Elite Athletes: International Olympic Committee Consensus Statement (2019)
Reardon, C. L., et al. (2019). British Journal of Sports Medicine
Barriers and Facilitators to Mental Health Help-Seeking for Young Elite Athletes
Gulliver, A., Griffiths, K. M., & Christensen, H. (2012). BMC Psychiatry
Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF)
Hanin, Y. L. (2000). Emotions in Sport
Constants Across Cultures in the Face and Emotion
Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1971). J. Personality and Social Psychology
Concussion & Neurological Assessment
Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport (Berlin)
McCrory, P., et al. (2017). British Journal of Sports Medicine
A Brief Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) Assessment to Evaluate Concussions
Mucha, A., et al. (2014). American Journal of Sports Medicine
Oculomotor, Vestibular, and Reaction Time Effects of Sports-Related Concussion
Kelly, M. (2019). J. Head Trauma Rehabilitation
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