The Money List has lost some of its lustre due to the riches of the FedEx Cup, more so now that the TOUR Championship and its bonus pool are excluded from calculations.
However, it remains the most manageable of antepost markets when it comes to making accurate predictions, more so than individual majors or markets speculating as to how many titles a player will win.
With most firms now betting on it ahead of the start of the new PGA Tour season, here's a look at some of the key contenders.
After another extraordinary year, one in which he collected a fourth major title and a first WGC and with them the Money List, Brooks Koepka is favourite for a repeat. I'm just not entirely sure he should be. Koepka's success depends so much on what he does in the majors and I am among the shrinking group who believe that it's not likely to be sustained. I wouldn't go as far as to say a downturn is expected, but it's difficult to foresee improvement and he's now very much there to be shot at.
Picking apart next year's major venues and his perceived suitability to them feels a little silly - his success has been built on the adaptability of a very modern game - but they do give his closest rival a potential edge which also feels like it ought to be factored in. At prices ranging from 9/4 to a best of 3/1, he just looks short to me, though there are no real negatives with form figures of 23-8-5-1 demonstrating his relentless ascent to the very top of the sport.
Indeed, it's hard to make a case for Koepka being outside the top 10 and he could well make a flying start as he sets about defending his position atop the Official World Golf Rankings, which is under sufficient threat to keep him motivated until April and the beginning of major season. Expect more success and silverware - just don't rely on him at short prices in this market, as he looks vulnerable to all three of his closest rivals in the betting.
Patrick Cantlay is the player who finished a distant second behind Rory McIlroy in the 2019 strokes-gained stats, and he looks much better value than Rahm when it comes to penetrating the top of this market.
Once upon a time, Cantlay's remarkable consistency would have made him an obvious Money List winner - think Luke Donald or Matt Kuchar - but these days it seems clear that two or three titles will be required and that would be the slight concern given that he only has two on his CV.
However, his performances in winning the Memorial Tournament and in taking Justin Thomas the distance at Medinah suggest that the floodgates may well open for one of the most complete and reliable players in the sport, one who remains unexposed in majors where he's missed just one cut in 12, and he has all the skills required to reach the very top of the sport.
Being from California helps a little when it comes to next year's majors, too, with Cantlay sure to have earmarked Harding Park as an ideal place to break through at the highest level. His improvements on and around the greens will help at Winged Foot, and Open Championship form of T12-T41 represents a solid enough start for a player who is making up for time lost to injuries which might have ended his career.
Cantlay is on the radar for the WGC-HSBC Champions, too, and having only narrowly been touched off for third place in 2019 is expected to take his place inside the top five - where he'll likely spend much of the next decade and more. that he wins the Money List without Thomas, Johnson, Koepka and McIlroy, and I think there's every chance he does just that while beating a couple of them for good measure.
And finally, Hideki Matsuyama is in a similar bracket to Spieth albeit with a somewhat different profile in the here and now.
Matsuyama was fourth in this market in 2017, the season in which he won two World Golf Championship titles by a combined 12 shots to demonstrate that when the putter fires, he can ransack any field in the sport. His final tally for the year was $8,732,193, which is enough to have a good chance of winning in most years and put him more than $2million clear of fourth.
Since spurning a golden opportunity to become the first man from Japan to win a major a week after that Firestone romp, Matsuyama has gone without silverware - but the evidence of the final few weeks of the 2019 campaign is that he's not far away from ending the drought.
When Matsuyama does win, chances are he'll do so again soon after. That's what happened in 2016, when having ended the previous season strongly he closed out the year with form figures of 1-2-1-1-1, and with the PGA Tour heading to Japan for the first time ever in the coming months, and a Presidents Cup to get ready for soon after, he's going to be motivated to find a return to that world-beating level.
It's not difficult to envisage a scenario in which Matsuyama clicks before the year is out, plays well in the Presidents Cup and comes out firing in 2020. As a proven major performer with those two World Golf Championship titles to his name, that would make him an each-way player and he's preferred to Spieth all things considered, with Sky Bet's 25/1 without the big two well worth considering alongside the standout 66/1 in the standard market.