We have extended the DVS-APC scheme for automated active space selection to the treatment of vertical exciations in transition metal complexes. We have shown that (a) the DVS procedure is generally successful in selecting good active spaces from a broad range of trial orbitals, and (b) benchmark results from hand-selected active spaces can be obtained using only a small number of trial CASSCF active spaces (about 10, between N=4 and 8 with λ ∈ [0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2]). Additionally, we have shown that (c) the active spaces chosen by DVS-APC can be condensed down to minimal active spaces by eliminating uncorrelated orbitals by means of the natural orbital occupancies. This down sampling method provides a pathway for further eliminating active space inconsistency error (ASIE) in studies of dynamics or reactivity. However, several of the results outlined above warrant further discussion. Firstly, although the DVS scheme applied to the transition metal dimers produces results with an DVS-NEVPT2 still lies about 0.04 eV above the hand-selected active spaces of Jacquemin et al. (0.14 eV). In contrast, the minimizing error (ME) approach -at least partially reflective of how a human might choose between active spaces when knowing the answer in advance -is able to better match the results of the hand-selected active spaces (0.10 eV). Thus, we expect that some of the difference in error between the DVS and hand-selected active spaces may come from the biasing of the active space by the user towards the correct answer. It is at least clear that some of such biasing occurs in practice; the work of Jacquemin and coworkers indeed reports multiple active spaces in the supporting information for many of the transition metal dimer excitations reported. Additionally, examples in the supporting information show that the active spaces selected by DVS generally look to be chemically reasonable selections. A case where the DVS active space is qualitatively incorrect while the ME active space is correct is also highlighted as a major outlier.