Didn't realize I coud look up other people's schedule, but I found that feature now. Looks like I'm not the only one to take a significant hit this month.

I called the PBS help line and they told me that the instructors were allowed to bid this month basically adding a bunch of relatively senior people to the list which had the effect of dropping my seniority for the month. Based off my bid they said there was no way I could have tweaked it to get more than 11 off.

I agree though, they can delay PBS as long as they want, I'm in no rush.