Originally Posted by
UGBSM
Not really "to spread out the work"... just reduce the size of the stack in advance by assigning those trips first. The program is thoretically capable, BTW, of assigning every single trip and having no stacks. So the matter is really how big of a stack to allow, thus the logic of having more reserves to cover even if they are senior reserves.
What appeared odd was no trips assigned via coverage awards. Everything was left in open time and reserves were unstacked to roughly 30% in category. I was surprised they opted for reserve coverage awards at 30% without lineholder coverage awards at 99%.