Every year, SPG publishes a year end summary called “A Year To Remember” with some of the most interesting statistics of the Starwood Preferred Guest program. The most noteworthy of the bunch in 2014:Yes, one member earned over 21 million Starpoints in 2014.  So the question quickly becomes, “how did they do that?”  Some possibilities:

• Incredible spending on the SPG Amex business and/or personal card
• Booking a number of large meetings and events at expensive Starwood properties
• Booking incredibly expensive suites, keeping in mind the 3 room per night limit for earning points.

There were other interesting facts listed in the SPG 2014: A Year To Remember as well:Bottom Line:

This is a fun year-end wrap up, but I am still super curious as to how anyone can earn more than 21 million Starpoints in a year.  Anyone else have any good theories on how to rack up points balance like this?