I’m not sure what good flop Zillow would do me if I do not play online so as far as figuring out hand histories, and all that sounds to me like it would be very difficult as a nothing but a live player
Flopzilla can still be very useful, even for live players without a database of hands. Do you take notes on hands played in the past? That's not necessarily a database, but you can review those hand history notes. In Flopzilla, put your opponent in the hand on a preflop range based on how they entered the pot and their player type. Enter your hole cards and see what your equity is versus their range. Then, you could enter the board cards and see how their range and your hand interacts with it. How many strong pairs do they have? Weak pairs? What about draws? If they cbet the flop, what hand strengths made that cbet? How does your hand's equity change as the board cards come out? You actually don't even need a hand history. Just image a difficult spot and imagine one of your frequent live opponents. Maybe you call out of the BB versus a loose early position raiser. Enter the range you think that early position player is open raising with. Enter your range for calling in the BB against this player. See what your preflop equity is versus his range. Enter imaginary board cards to see how your range and his interact with it. Do random boards to see how equities change on AXX or TT4 or 876mono, etc. I bet that 95%+ of your live opponents don't do this type of work. If you do it, you'll have a leg up on at least 95% of your opponents.
I’m not sure what good flop Zillow would do me if I do not play online so as far as figuring out hand histories, and all that sounds to me like it would be very difficult as a nothing but a live player
Flopzilla can still be very useful, even for live players without a database of hands. Do you take notes on hands played in the past? That's not necessarily a database, but you can review those hand history notes. In Flopzilla, put your opponent in the hand on a preflop range based on how they entered the pot and their player type. Enter your hole cards and see what your equity is versus their range. Then, you could enter the board cards and see how their range and your hand interacts with it. How many strong pairs do they have? Weak pairs? What about draws? If they cbet the flop, what hand strengths made that cbet? How does your hand's equity change as the board cards come out?
You actually don't even need a hand history. Just image a difficult spot and imagine one of your frequent live opponents. Maybe you call out of the BB versus a loose early position raiser. Enter the range you think that early position player is open raising with. Enter your range for calling in the BB against this player. See what your preflop equity is versus his range. Enter imaginary board cards to see how your range and his interact with it. Do random boards to see how equities change on AXX or TT4 or 876mono, etc.
I bet that 95%+ of your live opponents don't do this type of work. If you do it, you'll have a leg up on at least 95% of your opponents.