.. _how-to-calculate-utilities:

Calculate utilities
===================

A game can be passed a pair of :ref:`strategies-discussion` to return the
utilities. Let us create a game to illustrate this::

    >>> import nashpy as nash
    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> A = np.array([[3, 0], [5, 1]])
    >>> B = np.array([[3, 5], [0, 1]])
    >>> prisoners_dilemma = nash.Game(A, B)

The utility for both players when they both play their first action::

    >>> sigma_r = np.array([1, 0])
    >>> sigma_c = np.array([1, 0])
    >>> prisoners_dilemma[sigma_r, sigma_c]
    array([3, 3])

The utility to both players when they play uniformly randomly across both their
actions::

    >>> sigma_r = np.array([1 / 2, 1 / 2])
    >>> sigma_c = np.array([1 / 2, 1 / 2])
    >>> prisoners_dilemma[sigma_r, sigma_c]
    array([2.25, 2.25])