The DEA Game Cross Efficiency Model Applied to the Brazilian Football Championship

In this paper, we use DEA to measure the Brazilian football teams efficiency in the season 2014. In this context, each team is a DMU, where we select three inputs: the number of home matches, the average attendance and the average points obtained at the last four seasons. The total points obtained at the season 2014 is the output. We evaluate the teams cross-efficiency by DEA game, which is an approach suitable when there is no cooperation among DMUs. This procedure also improves the efficiencies discrimination.