I'm an mechanical/industrial engineer, switched jobs about a year ago from high volume manufacturing to working for a hospital system. In my new job I do a bunch of statistical modeling and data visualization surrounding arrivals, scheduling, and movement through various parts hospitals and other healthcare services. If your website is still active I'd love to check it out.
On another note, with all the betting on soccer that happens around the world I suspect that some extremely sophisticated predictive systems similar to what are being discussed exist but are they kept very proprietary.