You clearly haven’t done any reading or watched the presentation video.

Basically if you preference any single day off and that day already has coverage you will have your entire month booted to another rap. So if you want a specific rap or long call you have to give the program a blank slate to build your month on or risk getting a garbage rap

that's not exactly how it works. Your scenario paints the picture that there can only be one R11 per calendar day, one R3 per calendar day etc.

That being said, yes your day choices will affect your RAP award and not the other way around (it takes your day requests FIRST then your RAP request.) You can't say: I'd rather to R11 even if you have to disregard my day off requests, which is kind of unfortunate in a way.

You’re second paragraph is exactly what I said. So if the system awards all the days on and off I want and I tell it I want R11 (RIP) and it can award R11 on all of my preferenced days but one, I’m getting dreaded R3 (insert most hated RAP) for the entire month. Even though I could have had R11 on all but one day. Instead of giving me R11 on all but one day and R11 on one less desirable day, it’s going to give me that one day I wanted along with all the others perhaps and give me R3 for all of them. I’d much rather 99% of the days I want and R11 than 100% of the days I want and R3. That’s more than unfortunate that’s pure trash.

Am I right about this? This is how it was explained to me.

Not a PBS expert, but I did just watch the video....

Could you have at the end of your first bid group -if awarded R”I don’t wan’t” clear bids and goto next group, and have a next group with slgtly different days?

How long is the video? Been flying so I haven’t watched it yet.

Bout an hour and a half.

You're wrong

Yes filler

I assume so yes. But you just don’t know which single day might be the one to get you.