Nah, you're overthinking it. There aren't a fixed number of rooms in each bucket. They simply don't assign the standard room type when they don't want to. It can become, for example, a high floor, or whatever. This is how the game is played. You can see, for example, they don't want ANY summer weekend award stays -- at least not yet. So many Hyatts are doing the same thing. The owners are smart, of course -- once other hotels get away with it, they do the same, since it's apparently the profit-maximizing inventory strategy (based on the way Hyatt pays for award stays). The only consolation for program members is that, it would seem, the strategy tends to shift a month or two before arrival date when many of these hotels do add rooms to the award bucket. Not sure exactly why the math changes.