@klindy , I like the thought of weighting the L scores to stay on longer than the 12 months .
However if you lower the C scores to a 8 month time frame , for us in the north we will have zero incentive to participate in any tournament.
I host 4-5 tournaments at my lake a year and have ZERO desire to change those to an L just so my score can stay on awsa ranking longer. You will experience a net loss of participation in tournaments.
I host the tournaments as a way to 1: get a score , 2: hang out with my buddies and not necessarily in that order.
You are right in the average not necessarily reflecting the true skiers ability, I ski 10-12 tournaments a year and only the top 10% of those scores are in my average.
As far as the F scores go my example is last year I had guy's over to ski the night before a tournament. I skied pretty good, the next day same conditions , same two guy's in the boat ( both seniors) I missed my opener on my own site uugh. (probably mind wander thinking if I had enough gas/food/porta jons/is my wife mad all these people are over /etc. or something else for the event)