"When reserve is good, you wont find a better gig anywhere, when reserve is bad hopefully you have the bidding horsepower to do something else until it gets better"

So, how do you tell, before you bid, whether ONT reserve is going to be good or bad? I'm doing my first A reserve in ONT since I came to the domicle, next bid. It looked like the A Capts side was going to be well staffed and watching how much they have been doing the last couple of weeks, reserve looked like a better prospect than the kind of hard line I could hold.

Any tricks to working the crystal ball?