Hello iacas,
you said "They simply can't have the FedExCup decided before the Tour Championship"... why not? I mean, if a player win the first 2 events, then the FedEx Cup race can be closed there cause he is the best player in the field with no doubt (otherwise another player win the 3rd and the 4th), if a player is dominant this is good for me! Better to see Vijay enjoying the last tournament knowing that he proved before he was the best than seeing the Cup given to clearly a non dominant player like this year (imho).
So I understand that you are saying that the Tour Championship is more important than the others? So just award the Fedex Cup to the winner of that, as I wrote before...
You can score the entire playoffs with moneylist (imho), with 2 win and 2 mc you still got 2m$, pretty hard to reach for the other guys. I dunno, last year was exciting, this year was random imho, really hope they come out with a better logic, format or scoring...