The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup can most certainly be considered a resounding success, if for no other reason than that it is far better than what existed prior to the playoffs, which was nothing at all.
Prior to 2007, most of the top players in the world would pack it in for the year in late August following the PGA Championship, and we wouldn’t see them again until sometime in January.
Sure, you still need a doctorate in mathematics from MIT to understand the FedEx Cup point system, but many fans seemed to have moved on from even attempting to comprehend the point system and are now simply content with watching the top players in the game face off against one another during a four-tournament playoff stretch in September.