Ideas whirling around in my head

With the Euros on and my current enjoyment of FIFA 12 (I will get Accrington Stanley into the Premiership!) I have been considering how to bring football into the realm of boardgames. I've a pretty good base of an idea, which I have been considering for a few days, but am yet to write anything down. Essentially it'll be set in a similar, or the same world as Blood Bowl (Games Workshop's old specialist game of fantasy gridiron). Players will manage their fantasy medieval-esque squads and develop them and the game mechanics will allow players to "drift" players around the pitch each turn to get into position and then a couple of players to perform special plays, such as making a run, a long pass, a slide slide tackle or a shot on goal. I need to get my ideas onto paper, but I think it could work. Reading this paragraph back to myself I realise it sounds odd, but trust me, I think I've got the germ of an idea that could be developed into a simplish, fun medieval-esque football game.

Another idea came to me very quickly one evening after watching Toy Story 2. A game bidding based card game where players aim to buy the rarest toys to win the game. A simple, short, fun game for a large groups. The game would consist of a stack of cards with duplicate copies of various toys, this is shuffled together and then a certain number of cards are drawn off the top and placed in a seperate pile. Cards from the main pile are then placed face up on the table and one card from the seperated pile is turned face up. The cards from the seperated pile will give players an idea of which cards are now rarer in the main pile, because for each duplicate of a card in the seperated pile, there will be less in the main pile, thus they are rarer and worth more points. This will not be evident from the beginning of the game but will become more so as the game progresses allowing players more insight into what to bid for. That's my quick summary, but I'll get it down properly and maybe wop together a draft version for testing; not sure what to do about money, maybe something similar to High Society...?