Actually, I think I’ve been saying it wrong. DVC doesn’t “compare” one year to another, e.g., they don’t compare 2022 to 2021, and they don’t compare 2022 to the base year. When DVC calculates the total points needed to book a resort for 2022, they apply the 2022 points chart to the base year, whatever year that is.
Let’s say that the base year is 1991. I’m going to use the BWV points charts. So in the 2022 points charts, during Sept. 1-19 a standard view studio is 9 points on weekdays and 13 on weekends. When adding up the total points needed to book that room during that period, they don’t look at how many weekdays there will be during Sept. 1-19 in 2022 - they look at how many weekdays there were during that time in 1991 (or whatever the base year is). In Sept. 1-19, 1991, there were 15 weekdays, so each dedicated standard view studio at BWV is responsible for 9 x 15 = 135 points for that period. There were 4 weekend nights, so each dedicated standard view studio is also responsible for 13 x 4 = 52 points for that period, or a total of 187 points. Multiply that by the number of dedicated SV studios there are at BWV (I’m too lazy to look that up) to get the number of points required to book all the dedicated SV studios for the first season shown on the 2022 points chart.
They go through that process for every room type (at BWV that would be dedicated SV studios, dedicated BW/G/P view studios, dedicated SV 1 BR, dedicated BW/G/P view 1 BR, SV 2 BR and BW/G/P view 2 BR) for every season, and they total all that up. (I’m sure they have a lovely spreadsheet that’s way beyond my self-taught Excel skills to develop that does all those nice calculations for them.). That total is compared to the total points for the resort. And that’s the number that has to remain reasonably constant year to year.
Does that make sense? Was that helpful?