Alright, I'll admit I didn't communicate what I meant very well but yes, I understand you have to operate within the confines of the NRP and I was trying to say the tracons would be round 1, big towers in round 2, 8s and 9s in a round 3, and everyone else afterwards. When I say they get their top 5 or top 3, I meant a cap on selections in which a place like SCT only gets 5 (likely their top 5 since they always draft pretty high) and then the next place gets their "top 5 available." I mentioned somewhere else in this thread that I think a reasonable cap would be however many selections it takes to make a facilities projected staffing go up by 2% in a given panel. To get A80 and NCT's projected staffing to go up by 2%, they need 5 inbounds each in a given panel so make that the cap. SCT needs 7. Make the minimum amount of selections 2 so red towers with a target of 30 don't just pick up one person and they're done.
Not saying F11 doesn't need help given I've heard they are on 6 day weeks as well but they were projected at 89% and got 3 bodies while A80 was 69% and NCT was 76%, yet got 1 body each. If F11 was able to get their 3 after A80 and NCT and made got all their possible moves (which is likely given it seems SFB controllers were very selective), that would be fine. But because of the way the rules were designed this panel, there was no chance A80 or NCT were ever going to get more than 2 being that there ranking lists were only 5 or 6 people long in the first place. That is an oversight by the committee and I would argue that A80, NCT, and every other big tracon that only selected 1 person were red facilities that got shittier after selecting inbounds because the amount of attrition from all sources between quarterly panels far outpaces the 1 selection they made, meaning projected staffing will be lower by the next panel than it was on this panel.
And once again, I've said that I'm all for making the maximum possible moves in a given panel. But if you want to go to a level 7 and below that receives AGs, you should be the bottom priority. Fill all those moves at the end of the panel if they still exist.