2015 Topps High Tek Football Pattern Variations Gallery

Many baseball collectors know about Tek. But for football, its brand of many player patterns is new. 2015 Topps High Tek Football brings with it a wild look. At its most basic, the checklist appears to be one of the most basic and straightforward of the year. But with Topps Tek, it’s anything but. The 2015 Topps High Tek Football pattern variations give each base card multiple styles.

Unlike a lot of products that use different photos to make up variations, you need to look to the background for Tek. The foil changes depending which version you land. So are more common than others. Further complicating matters is the fact, that like 2015 Topps High Tek Baseball, the checklist is split. Players are divided into two groups, A and B. ‘A’ players have one set of pattern, ‘B’ players another.

Once you see our gallery, it makes more sense.

The 2015 Topps High Tek Football pattern variations follow the same path as its baseball counterpart. The ‘A’ group looks to have seven patterns. ‘B’ players should have six.

You can then start to number the various patterns and give them names. Whether it’s an ‘A’ or ‘B’ player, Pattern 1 is the most common and considered the base version. Pattern 2 is slightly less common, then Pattern 3 and so forth.By the time you get to Patterns 5, 6 and 7, the cards can become rare.

When you factor in the player groups, they become Pattern 1A and Pattern 1B. Both of these are the easiest to find and should be available in equal quantities. It’s the same when you compare 2A to 2B.

Player Groupings

For 2015 Topps High Tek Baseball, there didn’t appear to be an obvious division for players. Half the checklist were ‘A’ players, and the other half ‘B’. But each were scattered throughout and any connection between them wasn’t easy to figure out. The player groupings in 2015 Topps High Tek Football are easier to discern.

The first 72 cards on the checklist are the ‘A’ players while the final 50 have the ‘B’ patterns.

Pattern Names

Early versions of Topps Tek in the 1990s had the patterns built into the number on the back of the card. That’s not the case here. Because of this, each of the patterns has a name so that it’s a little easier to identify. Names are based on the abstract foil designs and carry over from baseball.

Images of all the patterns are in the gallery below.

2015 Topps High Tek Football Pattern Variations Gallery

Pattern 1A Grass

Pattern 1B Waves

Pattern 2A Spiral

Pattern 2B Dots

Pattern 3A Circuit Board

Pattern 3B Pipes

Pattern 4A Cubes

Pattern 4B Chain Link

Pattern 5A Pyramids

Pattern 5B Diamonds

Pattern 6A Stripes

Pattern 6B Grid

Pattern 7A Blade