[Psycho]

I tried writing a parser in Ruby some time ago to parse the thread and get the HoF statistics, but it proved to be not so easy. The problem is that you don't have a standard format for posts. Also some player names are written in two or three different variants - with and without capital letters, with and without spaces, etc. You'll probably have to enter a lot of data manually.

And if you're doing it, well then XML is probably the best way. You can easily write an XSLT to transform it to a human readable html file for example.