Blitz: The League

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Well now lets get to it. This is going to be a long guide so pay attention.

This is THE HARDEST achievement in the game. Not because its difficult and not because it is a grind (at least to someone who's got Veteran Gear or 1500 games in Fracture).

This achievement is the hardest because it requires specific conditions and timing, it took me 3 campaigns to figure it out. Also remember that this game was a port from the original Xbox when achievements werent even thought of yet. This game is also buggy in other ways.

Ok, now that we got the intro out of the way lets get started.

When starting a new campaign choose these people/conditions to start:

Coach 2/3 (Arm Accuracy Upgrade)
Off Cord 1/3 (Improved QB)
Def Cord 2/3 (LB/SS Faster/Stronger)
Doctor 3/3 Increases gain from training

After the management staff has been selected pick the QB rookie and LB veteran.

This achievement focuses on only one thing: TRAINING UPGRADES.

DO NOT spend money on gear (helmets, shoes, etc.), if you want to build the Uber team see Bling Bling for more details after you are done with the campaign and ready to take the team online.

DO NOT spend any money on juicong your players until the Div 1 championship. I know kind of defeats the purpose of the name of the achievement but like I said buggy in many ways.

I can not stress the words Training Upgrades enough. This is the reason for the coach selection, you need to get the most training gains ASAP.

Your rookie an veteran always have priority and do not mess with them unless the training says week 1/3.

Select the 2 metods of training that have the highest stats for each of them. This is what I did:

QB starts with B- Train Arm Strength and Acc
LB starts with C+ Train Tackling and Agility

When assigning the training you will also notice a +(2-5) next to the stat gauge. I have news for you +5 is the max, but continue to upgrade training equipment even beyond that for good measure.

Do not train LB Raymer for he will be replaced by Battaglia and do not train WR Ashwin he will be replaced by Tito Mass.

To get a player to A+ you need to have 4 stats over 90, im not sure of the exact number but over 90 seems to be where the sweet spot is, thats right 3 stats gets you an A, 4 gets you A+, this is where the timing part comes in, so plan on that. Don't believe me look at Mass's stats when you get him on the team as an A+. If you get your player to the point where youre at 96-97 dont bother increasing that stat anymore the training will not be used to its full potential.

Upgrading the equipment your rookie and vet are CURRENTLY training in is the priority on spending.

Remember this: TURN AUTO SAVE OFF

If a player gets injured, you lose a training slot, if a player gets traded (see above), you lose a training slot.

Durring the course of your 33 game campaign remember this: You can not get L33T if you want Juiced, its not possible in anyway what so ever. I will explain more when I get to Div 1.

Your QB and LB can not have any unleashed moves happen (by the opposing team, feel free to unleash against your opponent all you want) to them at any time for any reason or your grade will drop faster than the DOW in late 2008 even with high stats (remember this game is buggy). Do not allow any dirty hits to them either, you may get lucky with one or two but any more it will definetly drop. Always check their grades after each game to insure their grades do not drop before moving to the next game.

Do not worry about winning every single game, just 7 of them each season and the championship, CASH is your top priority in every game.

First you will need to use the Whale tactics in every game, you dont necisarily have to get $250k in each game, arround $180k-$220k will do in every game.

This will get you through Div 3 and Div 2.

Now just as you thought everything is going normal after winning Div 2 and your rook and vet are at A ranks you get some setbacks.

You lose your vet for game 1 in Div 1 only, no way arround this, but luckly no loss in grade either.

On game one of Div 1 The rookie is your concern, big time, In the story Sands injures your rook in the game, and guess what his grade drops faster than the stock market did on black friday 1929.

Some people say fake FG this some people say running play this or that, guess what its all bullshit, Sands will injure your rook no matter what if he even touches the field once, no matter what. Remember Sands finds a dirty way to injure him, it can be on the sidelines in the 4th qtr. If youre thinking I made it to 0:01 in the 4th and rook is still ok, guess what, still happens, dont let anything mislead you.

This is why I can not stress enough why the QB must be your rook. This is why you can not get L33T, you can only use one play PUNT (away to the other team). Now youre thinking well I should have picked a RB or WR if this is the case, it isnt. The WR and RB pop up at random on a PUNT, therefore the chance for injury is still there.

Call me a liar if you want, it took me 3 additional campaigns at 985/1000 to figure this out.

So in all QB rook, nothing but punt away, and lose game 1 of Div 1.

Now on to game 2-championship of Div 1. Play like I said before, check the stats after the 1st encounter with the nightmare and so on and so on.

For encounter 2 with the nightmare (I think it's game 6) they are still the toughest team and you want to avoid injuries. If you notice your rook has been playing the whole time but the story line tells you otherwise. Do not worry about the cutscene, it means nothing.

Now that you have been working on youe stats the whole time your rook and vet should have A+ between the 2nd game against the Reign or before starting the Div 1 championship.

Now this is where the 2nd attempt pissed me off. You must have A+ on both rook and vet before starting the Div 1 Championship game. If they get it after the game it does not count toward the achievement.

I hope this guide helps, please feel free to comment on my ranting or long drawn out description but this was all for 15G and pushed my sanity to the end with little or no online guides or support (do remember that there are less than 100 tracked gamers that have this). Had to learn a new lesson every campaign attempt and played through over 100 possibilities in div 1 game 1 to figure this out.

Good luck, you'll need it, and maybe more than one try.

This guide is specifically for choosing what stats to boost; the guide by Titanius Ferrum is excellent for the general path to getting the achievement.

So: I can confirm that you most definitely need 4 stats above 90 to get your players to A+. However, we have a secret weapon: Resist Injury. It counts as a stat, and is already at the correct level when you start. Therefore, you only need to focus on 3 stats.

Where I differ from the previous guide is in what order I train in. I realized that if I focused only on the two next highest stats for each player, that there would be a chance that time would run out before a third could be leveled up.

My strategy was to train my player in one high stat from the beginning, and whichever Stat would be my third. For the QB, I began with arm accuracy, and chose speed due to it being higher up. For the safety, I focused on agility and tackling. Whichever 3rd you choose, just make sure it's reasonably high, and that you get +5 every cycle.

As soon as my high stat got over 90, I switched to the other highest star as soon as possible. This is arm strength for the QB, speed for the safety. At the same time, the third stat has been steadily increasing.

The final hurdle was the veteran. Because he sits out one game, his training cycle gets put off by one week. However, as long as you're on your final stats training, you should be okay to go. He just won't hit A+ at the same time as the rookie.

The achievement popped for me after the 6th Division 1 game. I had made sure that my rookie didn't get the scripted injury, so remember to keep your L33T and Juiced playthroughs separate.