Back in the 2018/19 season, Az was stuck in a rut. With two thirds of the Fantasy Premier League season gone, he was languishing at around the 500k mark and any dreams of replicating the top 1k finish of the 17/18 campaign were over.

However, after reading the Matthew Syed book "Black Box Thinking", he found new inspiration and decided to start a new podcast called FPL BlackBox, focusing on the mistakes he had made during that season in a bid to learn, improve and help others. 

The idea had the desired effect over the final Gameweeks, as Az managed to climb to a respectable finish of 62k. The podcast was then parked until late in the 2018/19 season and after announcing he was to bring it back for the start of the 2019/20 campaign, it attracted the attention of Mark Sutherns, who had shared the podcast airwaves with Az on Fantasy Football Scout's ScoutCast for several years. 

A partnership was proposed and the new, improved version of FPL BlackBox was born.