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Yes your 2g A boys are better than your 2g B boys. If your 2g B boys are testing aga to tje A boys then you can bet that they are very high B.
I just compared 4 brothers and I have 1 that compared superior to the rest. I would geld any foal that is worse than your A boys. If they test aga to the A boys then you can base it off of pt scores and color. Remember pt scores has nothing to do with breeding ability.

"About as good as" could mean literally as good as, or slightly worse. I personally would only keep the A papered superior boys. For instance, I just got a star papered colt sired by another star. He only tested AGA his sire, so he's getting snipped and kept for a show pony, even though he's a star papered colt.

Find yourself a "benchmark" colt, meaning the best of the bunch. Anything that doesn't paper as good as AND test as good as, gets snipped. So any B papered boys are always going to be slightly worse, even though they test "about as good as".

If all the Bs test as good as the As then they are all about the same in ability and there's really no way to weed them out strictly by breeding ability at that point.

Next I would probably go by which colors I preferred to whittle them down further, but you can go by PT instead. I think that would be as valid as anything else. Maybe you could look at consistency also and use that.

For me, if it's a colt from a B papered foundation, I don't keep ANY of the B papered colts, even if I only get one A papered colt that season. Same goes for my 3g Colts, if they're from regular create/perfect foundations, they need to paper A or they get snipped.

As far as mares, once they have 3 foals you can paper them. In general, foundation and 2g mares should paper Red, 3g/4g should paper Blue, and 5g and up should paper Gold. Yellow papered mares get snipped.

You'll find your own way, it takes time. I've been at this a little over a year and I'm just now starting to really crack down on my quality and be really strict about it.