It clamps the roster to your band (a 6 matches roughly 5–7), then ranks inside it by the gated hierarchy score — Tier 1 is a gate, not an average, so a knockout who'd be looking past you still won't top the list. Each match opens into the same breakdown the old sims gave: the number, the tiers, and the why on every sub-factor. Lens Celebrity ratings and the per-factor reads are provisional editorial estimates — a seed you can argue with.
How a candidate's SMV is scored — and the notoriety dock
The SMV figure on each card isn't one guess — it's a weighted blend of four levers (each rated 1–10), with the weights tilted by sex to mirror the Five Levers doctrine:
- Looks · Vitality (youth — a steep age curve) · Frame (personality / charisma) · Status (wealth / rank / provision).
- Men: Status 0.36 · Looks 0.28 · Frame 0.22 · Vitality 0.14 — status and looks carry it; no single maxed lever reaches the top.
- Women: Looks 0.40 · Vitality 0.30 · Frame 0.18 · Status 0.12 — youth alone is 30%, and the curve drops hard after ~35 (the Wall). A 42-year-old with average looks caps around 4 even with nothing else wrong.
On top of that blend, a notoriety dock subtracts for public infamy the dating market would actually hold against you: −1.5 for serious (conviction / predation / fraud), −0.7 for lesser (scandal / cancellation). It's deliberately a separate line from looks/status, not folded in. Worked example — Elizabeth Holmes: looks 5.0, vitality 3.2 (age 42), frame ~5.3, status 2.0 blend to ~4.2, then the −1.5 fraud dock lands her at 2.7.
Docked −1.5: Sam Bankman-Fried, Billy McFarland, Martin Shkreli, George Santos, Tekashi 6ix9ine, Joe Exotic, Armie Hammer, Russell Brand, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Casey Anthony, Tila Tequila. Docked −0.7: Rudy Giuliani, Shia LaBeouf, Rachel Dolezal, Jenelle Evans, Amber Heard, Roseanne Barr, Mama June, Azealia Banks, Trisha Paytas. Every roster number is a provisional editorial estimate, built to be argued with.