“…Using a mixed strategy, in which available actions are selected probabilistically, prevents opponents from exploiting predictability during many interpersonal, geopolitical, pursuit-evasion, evolutionary, and sporting competitions (Maynard Smith, 1982;Driver and Humphries, 1988;Shinar et al, 1994;PalaciosHeurta, 2003). Game theory provides insight into these mixedstrategy competitions by outlining normative strategies, that is, specifying the proportion of responses that players should devote to each option once a behavioral equilibrium is established (Nash, 1950;Fundenberg and Tirole, 1991).…”