How should I bulk update a three-way pivot table?

Hello all -

I'm looking for some advice on the best way to bulk update a three-way pivot table.

Say you have a pivot with the fields: user_id, opinion_id, team_id.

Then, the user has entered a bunch of opinions (love, like, dislike, etc.) about different teams and I have that information in an array of arrays such as:

$opinions = [
    ["user_id" => 1, "opinion_id" => 2, "team_id" => 4],
    ["user_id" => 1, "opinion_id" => 3, "team_id" => 2],
    ["user_id" => 1, "opinion_id" => 2, "team_id" => 7]
];

Is there anyway I can update the pivot model, OpinionTeamUser with one database query?

On creation of the user's opinions, I can batch create with insert() - that's all well and good. The problem arises when I am looking to update... Ideally, I would update a record if it exists, delete a record if the user has deleted their opinion on a given team, and create a new record if they entered an opinion for a team that they had previously not had an opinion on. With delete, I may just need to compare their old opinions with the new ones - but for the update/create aspect, I guess I am looking for an equivalent to the updateOrCreate method, except on a larger scale... I could use that on an individual basis but it would lead to way too many queries.

I have been Googling around and playing with various ideas but have yet to come up with an efficient solution using Eloquent... Any advice would be greatly appreciated!