As the creator of the
original post on this subject in the Commissioner forum, I'm afraid I have to agree with those complaining about the inordinate amount of time it takes to generate the tarballs. I had previously reported that setting a virus scanner exclusion for your league's directory helped speed up the process. While true, it simply doesn't do enough, as I've become painfully aware of now that we've hit the regular season. Tarball creation times are in the neighborhood of 3x longer than what it took under OOTP 8 using the exact same settings.
While I'd stop short of asking for an emergency patch, this is truly a major pain. If for some reason the sim runs a little long or I'm a little late getting started, my owners are going to have to wait
much longer to get the new file than they would have previously (this actually happened last night). Knowing how long it's going to take to generate the tarball puts a great deal of pressure on me to rush through everything, and that of course leads to mistakes.
For me personally, this is currently the most pressing issue in need of fixing. I'm sure other online commissioners would express a similar sentiment.