I know it's been a while since the original question was asked, but I spent more time than I probably should have figuring this out myself... so I thought I'd share.

Task scheduling really is the way to go here, but you might have trouble when you play things out on production – because Laravel throws a confirmation warning when you run db:seed in production environments:

That throws a wrench in things when you try to run it via the scheduler.

The trick is to use --force, but obviously, make sure you really want to do this on production — the confirmation's there for a reason, after all:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

Schedule::command('db:seed ApiPlayerStatisticsSeeder --force')
    ->daily();

(And by the way, logging the output can be really helpful when you're debugging.)