Originally Posted by RhinoBallAuto

You're 100% correct. From a numbers perspective it will stabilize out of necessity, give or take a few. What may potentially drive it slightly further down temporarily is the combination of a June bid (prior to seniority reshuffle) in a year with a significant number of retirements.

I think your best indicator of the trend line is to see what the junior most numbers are each August, post shuffle

I would assume we are pretty close to stasis right now.