It could very well be that Button hasn't seen Virtanen enough. He does his own scouting while compiling his lists. He might have caught Virtanen on a bad game or two (and I am sure he obviously can't put in as much time scouting any particular region as you would expect teams' regional scouts to do).
I used to think that Button would release his lists designed to illicit controversy and not much else, but it does make sense once you factor in that he scouts his own entire list (correct me if I am wrong here). I think it actually increases the legitimacy of his lists by not going along with what most reports throw out - especially given that he simply can not view any one prospect enough times - so there will be prospects he catches in a 'wow' stretch, and others he catches in a bit of a rut, and thereby his list will be and should be a bit different.
Let's see where Virtanen ends up at in his final rankings.
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