Definition:Bach or Stravinsky?/Payoff Table

Payoff Table for Bach or Stravinsky?

The following payoff table specifies the game Bach or Stravinsky?:

		$\text B$
$\text A$		$\begin {array} {r {{|}} c {{|}} } & \text {Bach} & \text{Stravinsky} \\ \hline \text {Bach} & 2, 1 & 0, 0 \\ \hline \text {Stravinsky} & 0, 0 & 1, 2 \\ \hline \end {array}$

Also presented as

Some sources present the payoffs for $\tuple {\text {Bach}, \text {Stravinsky} }$ and $\tuple {\text {Stravinsky}, \text {Bach} }$ as $-1, -1$ to emphasise the undesirability of the outcome where the two players attend different events.

Sources

• 1994: Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein: A Course in Game Theory ... (previous) ... (next): $\text I$ Strategic Games: Chapter $2$ Nash Equilibrium: $2.3$: Examples: Figure $16.1$