whether you're a geek like me when it comes to figuring out "systems," one of my guilty pleasures is looking at the upgrade lists for flights. Even whether I'm already confirmed in first course or not requesting an upgrade, I always still eye at the upgrade list (when it's published), or just so I have an extra data point for planning my travel in the future. Heck,for airlines which publish upgrade lists on their website, I sometimes even check the lists for flights I'm not on, or just out of curiosity.
The truth is that American upgrade lists aren't generally that long. In my experience there are typically a handful of people on the first course upgrade list for most American flights I hold,after first course is checked in full. That might partly have to do with the fact that I mostly fly routes like Tampa to Dallas on Saturdays, and not original York to Dallas on Friday afternoons. The longest upgrade list I've seen on American has been ~35 passengers.
But comparatively I still find upgrade lists on American to be relatively short, or which is probably largely a function of Gold & Platinum members having to redeem "stickers" in order to upgrade,so many elite members won't add themselves to the upgrade list, since it's not unlimited complimentary upgrades.
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Source: boardingarea.com