The article is about grant termination, not the acceptance of applications.
turns out this function works just as well for that too
only 50% of the time
I think I'd have to reject it in review. The parameter is not used and should therefore be prepended with an underscore or literally be named "_" to signal such to a reader.
Is this the classic model?
No, that accepts far too many grants. You'd need to add weights=[1, 100] to it.