DEA PARA AVALIA O DA EFICIêNCIA DENTRO DE CAMPO DAS EQUIPES PARTICIPANTES DO CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO DE 2011

Soccer is famous for unpredictable match results. Despite that fact, it isn`t odd to point that great teamsthat usually keep high technical level along many competitions have most of the times conditions tocompete for titles. The DEA approach evaluates the efficiency analysis of the teams by their actionsduring the game, that way inefficient teams may identify what aspects of performance are low and findout where they could search for improvements. On this paper, variable selection was applied forchoosing which aspects inside the field game are more relevant for 3 different DEA models, that evaluateteams on three different goals: Defense, Connection and Attack.