1 an actor --
the Shakespeare Players
2 a person who plays a musical instrument: --
3 someone who plays a musical instrument: --
4 someone who takes part in a sport or game: --
fig. The company is one of the leading players (= organizations taking part) in the deal.
This basketball team has a lot of talented players.
5 a company, organization, or person that has influence within a particular activity, industry, or type of work: --
global/industry player It may take another three to four years before the market stabilizes enough for global players to think about establishing new EU locations.
key/major/important player As chairman of the Finance Committee, she was a key player in the assembly's lengthy budget negotiations.
a player in sth The organization used to be unique; today it is just another player in a cut-throat market.
Second, if a plan exists which is unambiguously in everyone's interest, then the individual players will not hesitate to choose their part of the plan.
Hence, it is difficult to explain why players would conceive of the simultaneous move game in sequential terms.
Take the three-person game introduced above and suppose the players' beliefs are as specified.
Each of the three players is now free to believe that the other two players are correlating their strategy choices.
One interpretation sees the updating as done by real players who repeatedly play against each other.
They might cite the case of baseball teams that know which of their players have contributed without having to know what they get paid.
Actual players may want actual not hypothetical compensation to those made use of by trade.
If a player's type can be made common knowledge, rational egoists would not survive.
