The Baseball Players? Association has voted to go on strike if a settlement is not reached with the owners within the next month. The players? representative, Melvin Mulehead, has two strategies (containing different free agent rules, pension formulas, etc.); the owners? representative, Roy Stonewall, has three counterproposals. The financial gains, in millions of dollars, from each player strategy, given each owner strategy, are shown in the following payoff table:

a. Determine the initial strategy for the players and for the owners.

b. Is this a pure or a mixed strategy game? Explain.

Player Strategy 1 2 A $15 7 Owner Strategy B $9 20 $11 12