I have been having absolutely atrocious luck with CPUs as a 1K out of EWR. I think I've ended #1 on the list 5 times, including one time going from #1 with 5 available at T-12 to #1 with 0 available at boarding. I actually had a better percentage last year when I was still a Platinum. Routing through LGA seems to help a little, but not much.