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No idea what you're talking about so I looked it up

> The Shapley value is a solution concept in cooperative game theory. It was named in honor of Lloyd Shapley, who introduced it in 1951 and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for it in 2012. To each cooperative game it assigns a unique distribution (among the players) of a total surplus generated by the coalition of all players. The Shapley value is characterized by a collection of desirable properties.

This is pretty much the whole article lede on Wikipedia but I have no idea what I just read. What's a total surplus in a cooperative game here, like how much wood your team has gathered in AoE? How does it help to "assign" that, wouldn't that rather be the result of a game? Can someone dumb this down?