You have a certain league database which needs forever to load since you upgraded to OOTP9? Sometimes the reason for this problem is that leagues have been added and deleted during the creation of that database. There are probably a lot of teams now which are deleted but still exist in the teams.dat. Due to a bug in OOTP9 prior to 9.2.3, OOTP tried to load a logo for each team, even for the deleted ones. And with lots of player pics in the images folder, this made loading of the teams very, very slow.
We fixed this problem with build# 9.2.3 and later. We recommend downloading build# 9.2.13 which you can find here:
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-released.html