Not exactly true. Everybody in the same Status and Category was not treated equally. If you were the #1 highest in Narrow FO you were only slightly worse than the last pilot in Medium FO. So if you were furlough #1 you were just slightly worse than active -dash last.

So it wasn't like all the Wide Captains got 100 points, all the Medium Captains 80 points, etc.

Same with the furloughees.

Pilots that are very close to the line in each category have the same bidding power roughly. This was included in the math that made the award, which is why it looks so "smooth".