Mileage run-ish?

[vague]

I want to earn a minimum of 2,955 EQM before the year is up, to maintain my AA status.

I’m based out of PHL, willing to spend some money/points and time sitting on planes to nowhere, but having difficulty planning routes that are economical in both price and the EQMs they generate, while not keeping me anywhere overnight (start and end the day in PHL). I’ve been playing with generating multi-hop routes through one or more of AA’s hubs, but everything I turn up seems to just be prohibitively expensive.

Any thoughts/ideas on how to best approach this?

[mmgfarb]

Flyertalk will be much better for this than here.

[davidrotts63]

I want to earn a minimum of 2,955 EQM before the year is up, to maintain my AA status.

I’m based out of PHL, willing to spend some money/points and time sitting on planes to nowhere, but having difficulty planning routes that are economical in both price and the EQMs they generate, while not keeping me anywhere overnight (start and end the day in PHL). I’ve been playing with generating multi-hop routes through one or more of AA’s hubs, but everything I turn up seems to just be prohibitively expensive.

Any thoughts/ideas on how to best approach this?

ITA.matrix, you'll still have to sort through options that won't help you, but you'll be able to sort by price.
Hub to hub isn't cheapest, IINM a stop in a hub will be cheapest.